The Force of Character And the Lasting Life (excerpts)

In our competitive societies, "lasting" has come to mean outlasting. "I've outlived my father and both grandfathers!" "According to my doctor, I should have been dead three years ago."

Novelist and Analyst Search the Japanese Psyche

So intriguing to me was Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that I found myself reading it for a second time (all 607 pages), just months after my initial encounter with the book.

...In Bits...

West Cork, Ireland. I woke up one morning with a previous day's session on my mind, and a recurring sense of the need for a more organic and holistic approach to the understanding of mental illness.

Illusion and The Design of a Successful Simulation Program

With some anticipation and appetite, what accounting can we apply to the resulting extra flavor of an apple pie? What about the extra refreshment of a cold beer after a hard work-out?

The Symbolism of Popular Culture: Sexy Ice Cubes And The Evolution Of An Idea

In 1959, a social scientist named Vance Packard theorized that magazine ads of ice cubes in glasses of liquor suggested parts of a woman's anatomy.