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My funeral looms on the near horizon. I’m 71. The United States male life expectancy from birth is 76. If I move to Minnesota I’d live another 2 ½ years

We all have secrets in our hearts. I’ll tell you one of mine. I have struggled with the idea that with enough resolve I could take complete charge of my

A mist. That’s all. Then a few drops of rain. With a few more, a light rain falls. Add more and more drops. A downpour. Then a torrential rain. Dry

I woke-up feeling sad today. Not depressed. Not blue really. Not tearful. Perhaps downhearted…or melancholy might be a better word for the way I am feeling. Then I thought of

Sometimes I tell people, “I’m a redneck Texan with a very thin veneer of culture.”  I especially use this self-deprecating remark with stuffy people, the pompous, the high and the

I’m a semi-perfectionist. I should on myself a lot as in I should read more. I’m a must-tard like I must be the best psychiatrist in Blacksburg. (I am. I’m

The overwork trap weaves its tangled web insidi­ously. We have so much to do we can’t seem to get it all done. We get busier and busier and we fail

There are three types of guilt: Guilt that motivates us to change our behavior; guilt that punishes us just enough to allow us to keep doing those things we feel guilty

I’m 6’3″ broad shouldered, big boned, look robust, solid, but with one blow I’d crash down like a redwood hewed by an Oregon lumberjack. My friend is 5’11” thin, rather

Last month on a trip to Texas Vicki and I went to a movie with Joshua and his wife. On the way I pontificated grandly on the characteristics of a

A Spanish legend tells of a father and his son, Juan, whose strained relationship reached a breaking point. Juan ran away from home. The father after traveling around Spain in

Severe depression characterized by sleep distur­bance, changes in appetite, decreased libido, feelings of hopelessness and suicidal ideation requires medication and clinical treatment. Milder forms of depression can be handled by