Follow Up to Mad As Hell

The last post inspired me to take a more serious look at anger. Anger can too often be the elephant in the room, or maybe more aptly, the tiger in the corner, that people try to avoid.Today on PsychCentral I posted another take on Mad As Hell: Anger and the Economy....

Mad As Hell: Anger and the Economy

There is so much to be mad about these days. People are enraged by corporate greed, lost jobs, ineffective government, Bernie Madoff. And that's just the tip of the ice berg. The worst thing about being angry about anything associated with the economy is how...
Laughter Improves Your Sex Life!*

Laughter Improves Your Sex Life!*

*And Your Marriage When my husband and I were first married we lived in a tiny studio apartment in mid-town Manhattan. One evening after a hard day I had done something he ‘approved of’, I don’t even remember what, some mundane task. So he says in...
What’s So Funny?

What’s So Funny?

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”~G. K. ChestertonAfter 9/11 many of us thought laughter had died forever. Letterman and Leno stayed off the air in part because they were concerned about appearing insensitive. It was a long time before we felt it...