by Dr Aletta | Aug 30, 2018 | Body/Mind, Family Matters
Sunday’s are for sleeping just enough to feel indulgent, fixing a yummy hot breakfast (eggs and cornbread! Yum!) and diving into the Sunday Times. The top story in the Sunday Review section, usually a space to find analysis about the latest political snafu, was...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 23, 2018 | Family Matters, Relationships
What do you do? Some would say come clean. Confess all. Before you do anything rash, let’s think about this. Money is a very difficult thing for a lot of couples to talk about Money is a very difficult thing for a lot of couples to talk about. Surveys say more...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 14, 2018 | Relationships
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck Erma is talking about graduation from college but she describes so well how moms and...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 9, 2018 | Family Matters, Relationships
Sunday night I left the dining room table abruptly. “Are you angry?” my husband asked. “No, I’m not angry,” I replied through gritted teeth. “OK, good,” he said. With my back to him, I rolled my eyes and fumed. The rest of the...
by Emily Becker | Aug 6, 2018 | Family Matters, Life Matters, Positive Psych
The most popular course in the history of Yale University is Professor Laurie Santos’ Psychology and the Good Life. Santos’ course has received coverage in the New York Times as enrollment swelled, and made the cover of New York by the semester’s end. It’s even...