The Strange Malady of Having Regular Parents
I’ve written before about the crushing weight of trauma people seem to have in response to events and experiences that are, objectively, […]
In the Marital Debt as in Life: Joy Can Be Compatible with Suffering
My email exchange on the marital debt continues under the auspices of anonymity. The emailer insists that therapy is the answer. This […]
Tough Mothers: Raising Children and the Development of Grit
As we have previously mused, there seems to be a necessary element of physical discomfort to develop grit. Our bodies are always […]
A Little Bit of Suffering to Make You Happy
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than […]
A Foul-Weather Friend: Reading Alice Thomas Ellis in the Rain
The “fair-weather friend” gets a bad rap; flighty, prone to ditching when the going gets tough. On the other hand, rare is […]
Suffering Does Not Discriminate
Norman Cousins’ Anatomy of an Illness is a book as relevant today as it was upon publication in 1972. Cousins has a […]