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Category Archives: Health and wellness
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
You’ve probably had the experience of being completely absorbed in an activity, totally focused, losing track of time, your body moving effortlessly, your mind clear of all distractions and worries. You were “in the zone.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls this state … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Health and wellness, Inline skating
Tagged book review, Csikszentmihalyi, flow, happiness, nonfiction, personal development, psychology
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A Year at Home
March 5, 2021 is an anniversary of sorts. Today marks one full year since I started working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When I said goodbye to my colleagues at work on the evening of March 4, 2020, … Continue reading
Posted in Health and wellness, Reflections
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, lockdown, pandemic
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Together
Together By Vivek H. Murthy, MD HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2020 You can die of loneliness. It’s not just poetic sentiment, it’s a medical fact. Research shows that lack of social connection is just as hazardous to life expectancy as smoking … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Health and wellness
Tagged book reviews, community, connection, friendship, loneliness, nonfiction, together, vivek murthy
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Relationships at Work: Power, Trust and Peek-a-boo!
I’m working from home during the coronavirus shutdown and I’ve got into the habit of taking a long walk around my neighborhood at the end of each day. One of the podcasts I listen to on my daily walks is … Continue reading
Posted in Health and wellness
Tagged adam grant, esther perel, podcast, relationships, trust, worklife
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The Deepest Well
The Deepest Well is a book about the life-long health impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Continue reading
Posted in Books, Health and wellness
Tagged ACE, book review, book reviews, books, child wellness, childhood adversity, Deepest Well, epigenetics, health, Nadine Burke Harris, stress, toxic stress
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King v. Burwell: Everyone’s A Winner
(Photo: http://www.supremecourt.gov) Yesterday morning the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in King v. Burwell. This case is about tax credits granted under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) to low income individuals to help them pay … Continue reading
Posted in Health and wellness, Law and justice, Politics
Tagged ACA, health care, King v. Burwell, Obamacare, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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Glasses online
A couple of weeks ago I bought eyeglasses online for the first time. Maybe I’m late to the party, but it had been a few years since I last needed new glasses – my prescription hardly ever changes – and … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Health and wellness
Tagged glasses, online commerce
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TED Talks: Hans Rosling – Let my dataset change your mindset
Another amazing talk by Swedish public health professor Hans Rosling, given at the US State Department this June. Well worth a viewing.
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