'Socially' Acceptable Medicine
While there have been plenty of studies of how pairs of people, especially spouses, affect each others' health, there have been far fewer studies of h...
While there have been plenty of studies of how pairs of people, especially spouses, affect each others' health, there have been far fewer studies of h...
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
With courageous creativity Spike Jonze has taken Sendak's book and produced a visually astounding and psychologically turbulent film that warrants recognition in its own right.
Simon Carr | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
After my wife died the care and control of our five-year-old son fell to me. The idea of a man bringing up a young child was alien to the spirit of the age.
Deborah Tannen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Stamberg began our conversation by asking, with a mischievous twinkle that I could see in her eye and my sisters could hear in her voice, "So ladies, which of you was your mother's favorite?" While I hesitated and Naomi responded thoughtfully, "Oh, that's a good first question," Mimi quipped, "Obviously me. No question."
Deborah Tannen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A sister is someone with whom you can laugh and be silly like when you were kids; who still sees in you the child you were; who shares your past and your memories of it.
nytimes.com | PERRI KLASS, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Everyone takes it personally when it comes to birth order. After all, everyone is an oldest or a middle or a youngest or an only child, and even as ad...
Thelma Adams | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
While parents might return from vacation tired, and cranky, and feeling like the entire exercise was counter-therapy, kids remembered it differently.
Suz Redfearn | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
The event happened decades ago, but the memory remains terribly vivid. I awoke suddenly, alone, in my mom's dimly lit bedroom in the middle of a blustery South Florida night.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
Why should you have to be any kind of a couple to have access to basic rights, protections, dignity, and respect?
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Autism has been the strangest experience of my life. Positives and negatives, hope and despair, triumphs and defeat, laughter and tears.
Molly Magid Hoagland | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living
My younger boy just turned four, but the other day he fell asleep against my chest like an infant. He's now the age his older brother was when he was born.
nytimes.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living