iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Entries by Michael Sigman from 05/2011

Meditation Retreat: The Good, The Bad and The Surprises

| Posted 05.02.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Monkey Mind, The Eagles, Joe Tex, Guru, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Middle Way, Bette Midler, Grateful Dead, Meditation, The Animals, Will Kabat Zinn, Bobcat, Buddhism, Big Maybelle, Mountain Lion, Healthy Living News

Satisfying as the meditation high can be -- one prominent teacher half-joked, "That's why we do it" -- there are no short cuts to the benefits of tough, prolonged practice.

Read Whole Story

Pop Music Lyrics Don't Prove Kids' Narcissism

| Posted 05.04.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Nathan Dewall, Narcissism, Pop Music, Adolescent Narcissism, Gen Y Narcissism, Adolescent Vanity, Pop Culture, Gen Y Vanity, Pop Music Narcissism, Generation Y, Entertainment News

Do "late adolescents and college students love themselves more today than ever before," as Dr. Nathan DeWall concludes? I don't know. Neither does DeWall or his computer.

Read Whole Story

Giving Busyness the Business

| Posted 05.19.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stress, Busyness, Unplug and Recharge, Being Busy, Healthy Living News

In olden times, when tweeters were birds and "facebook" was a printed college directory, the "how are you?" greeting was typically met with "fine." (A non-narcissist might have added, "You?") Now, we're "busy."

Read Whole Story

Dispatches From the Pun Zone

| Posted 05.27.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Puns, Terrible Pun, Using Puns, Terrible Puns, Mark Twain Talks Puns, Puns in Language, Mark Twain on Puns, Comedy News

O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack's new book The Pun Also Rises lives up to its ambitious subtitle, How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics.

Read Whole Story