With yesterday being Thanksgiving, it’s safe to say that all of us are approximately 2 1/2 pounds heavier. (And a few antacids lighter.) I’d say get on a scale, but between now and New Year’s it’s probably best to avoid scales.
Dear New Shrink, I have an interview coming up and I have no idea how to prepare. I have had several interviews in the past, some have gone really well and others have been a complete failure.
Falling leaves, pumpkins, a cornucopia and turkeys: Whether we are conscious of it or not, some of the most prevalent Thanksgiving symbols come from nature.
The 2011 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Legislative Report Card is out and, from the perspective of citizen taxpayers and homeowners, the grades of the majority of legislators are so poor that, if they were school children, they’d be grounded.
Up here in the Palisades I am known as the turkey lady. That’s because this will be the fourth year in a row that there will be beautiful live turkeys strolling around my front yard over the holiday season.
Thanksgiving is my kind of holiday. Apart from the “thanks” part, the primary purpose of this celebration is eating. That is the one thing I do quite well.
You hear the phrase “time is money” everywhere, but it’s not entirely true: money can be lost and regained (and then lost again, as a trip to Las Vegas can teach you).
On Thursday night the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education reviewed the district’s gift giving policy. The issue is how gifts and donations to the district should be placed into one pot and distributed among schools based on some sort of “need” formula that has yet to be de
Q: For the past three weeks I have noticed a car parked on my block and there is someone sleeping in it overnight. During the day, the owner leaves the car parked on the street and returns to it in the evening.
There’s an old expression often used during the holidays, “It’s better to give than receive.” Obviously, Bernie Madoff wasn’t a big believer. His motto might have been, “Better to rip off than get ripped off.
When someone asked me, “Hey, did you hear that Johnny’s gone?” I thought that he had finally decided to go into a housing program. Johnny was one of the homeless that I talked to every day.
Dear New Shrink, I am in my early 20s and have been seeing a psychotherapist for about five months now. At first, I wasn’t even sure why I was going; I just wanted someone to talk to.