The greatest danger facing middle-aged men in Australia isn’t smoking or obesity – it is loneliness. So says Dr. Richard S. Schwartz, a Cambridge psychiatrist and his wife Dr. Jacqueline Olds who wrote the book The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century.……
The beginning of the search My brother rang me recently to tell me his friend was trading in his 12 month old car and asked if I was looking to buy a new car. He thought that if I offered……
How do you handle the tough times? In Davids most famous Psalm – Psalm 23, he talks about this when he refers to walking through “the valley of the shadow of death.” I guess, in many ways, people everywhere in……
My History of Weather Stations. Over the years I have purchased about four different weather stations other than the rain gauge on the back fence. The first one I purchased was a simple one that told me what the temperature……
My Problem A few years ago, I thought my memory was slipping, so my doctor referred me to a neurologist who promptly sent me off for an MRI. MRIs are really amazing things. If you’ve never had one, they are very……
Retirement brings a new round of challenges in most of our lives. The slick ads of retirement villages paint a glossy picture of a lifestyle full of fun, relaxation and few cares, a picture which rarely plays out in real……
Get Positive. The positive psychology movement has taken off in recent years. It seems to have begun somewhere around 1997 with Martin Seligman. He had worked out that too much of psychology was about broken people – aimed at fixing……
Find an Interesting Subject One of the things I wanted to do before I retired, was to do some courses on subjects I was interested in. All my life, since I was in kindergarten, someone else chose what I needed……
The BBC has a series of article on their “Future” website that ask the question “What if?”. They explore questions like “What if we knew when people were lying?” “What if all guns disappeared”, “What if the world went vegetarian”……
I suspect that as a population the world has never looked at charts as much as the last few months during the Covid 19 pandemic. Whether it is the stock market, your shares, your superannuation, your wage levels, health situation,……
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