I failed in my New Year’s resolution. The resolution was, OK, you’ll start waking up early, so by 5:30 a.m., you’ll be writing. Not anything specific, just… Read more “The Irresolute and other New Year’s Day musings”
Author: Crazy in Suburbia
To better understand murder-suicide, look at suicide
Writer Andrew Solomon makes an important point in a op-ed piece in the New York Times Sunday. As we try to understand the motivations of mass killers… Read more “To better understand murder-suicide, look at suicide”
The sorrows and joys of the holiday nostalgia blues
Here is a blog I posted last holiday season. I was feeling particularly blue last year; not so much this season. But I believe some of the… Read more “The sorrows and joys of the holiday nostalgia blues”
The lethal mix of aggrieved masculine pride, suicide and easy access to guns in Columbine, Virginia Tech and other mass shootings — Newton, too?
Ever since details emerged about how Adam Lanza massacred 20 first graders with a military-style rifle at a Connecticut elementary, I’ve been thinking back to that group… Read more “The lethal mix of aggrieved masculine pride, suicide and easy access to guns in Columbine, Virginia Tech and other mass shootings — Newton, too?”
So It’s Finally the End for the Dome?
This is an annoying, disturbing recent development. The Dome movie theater, a landmark in Pleasant Hill and in the history of East Bay cinemas, is going to… Read more “So It’s Finally the End for the Dome?”
“Flight” and the alcoholic driver
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Parents’ New Online Obsession: School Loop
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My Paula Broadwell Schadenfreude
I am a wicked person. I have been totally fascinated, like so many others, by the sex- and e-mail-scandal surrounding CIA Director and acclaimed retired four-star General… Read more “My Paula Broadwell Schadenfreude”
What do you tell your teens about drinking and driving?
So, fewer teens are drinking and driving. That’s the good news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers found that drunk driving among teens had… Read more “What do you tell your teens about drinking and driving?”
Old white guys at my gym still watching Fox News
Here’s a potential for a modern-day etiquette dilemma. I’m at my gym, running on the treadmill or on the elliptical, and some older gentleman comes up next… Read more “Old white guys at my gym still watching Fox News”
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