School starts soon, but I wanted to show you one more recipe before this blog returns to issues of neuroscience and psychology. This is a multi-generational family recipe that everyone in my family loves — and yours might just love it, too! Excuse the pun, but this midday meal is Read more…
Maintenance has been surprisingly smooth for the last 5 months or so, but of course, the holidays present an extra challenge for foodies. Jenny offers a really nice guide to healthy holiday eating, but we didn’t exactly follow that this year. Instead, we started Christmas morning with some raisin-blueberry-cinnamon rolls. Read more…
Today is the one-year anniversary of the start of my Jenny Craig diet. I really hadn’t intended to sign up–although I needed it–but did so to support my daughter Karen’s post shot-putting retrofit. After a stellar ten-year career in track and field, including a 9th place finish in the 2004 Read more…
Daniel Wegner introduced the concept of “ironic processes” as follows: “It sometimes seems that our desires to control our minds are met by an inordinate measure of failure. Whether we want to stop a worry, concentrate on a task, go to sleep, escape a bad mood, distract ourselves from pain, Read more…
Sometimes, my students are shocked when they run into me shopping. I guess, we professors are not alway thought of as having ‘lives’ beyond the classroom — but we do! If you haven’t seen my main web site, there is more to a professor’s life than a blog. Here is Read more…