A Letter to a Lonely Meritocrat

A Hermit Crab

Career Lessons from Rudolph

A Hippie's Life: A fictional short-short story

On Independence

Just a Matter of Opinion? A fictional short-short story

Practical Pros and Cons, Set 2

Things That Perplex Me

Tattoo? A fictional short-short story

The Yin/Yang, Ya-Ya/Na-Na Club: A short-short story after Shirley Jackso...

The Wizard's Revenge: A short-short story

A Word With Marty: "GROUPTHINK"

A Word With Marty: "NEGATIVITY"

Better Solo Than So-So

"We Are Monitoring Your Planet: An essay

Episode 27 of my How to Do Life podcast and YouTube: When You're Out of Step

 Here's episode 27 of my podcast and YouTube video, How to Do Life:: When You're Out of Step.

The Lonely Conservative: Ideas for the out-of-step

Anyone who is 65 or younger, especially if “well-educated,” has throughout their life, probably received a consistent message from society's mind molders—the schools colleges and media—that liberal is good, conservative is bad. 

Broadly, that translates into redistributing from the Haves to the Have-Nots: whether it’s more taxpayer-paid programs for the poor, supporting Palestinians over Israelis, and, of course, supporting Democrats over Republicans.

I have both liberal and conservative friends. In recent years and acceleratingly so in recent months, the liberals are feeling buoyed and/or angry, while the conservatives are more often sad, silenced, and often lonely. My Psychology Today article today offers a few thoughts for conservatives.

Truly Considering Diverse Views: A now undervalued value

Nearly everyone considers themselves open-minded if not downright celebratory of diverse ideas.

Alas, from where I sit, the truth isn’t as sanguine. Indeed, I see people getting more closed-minded.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a self-assessment plus a practical suggestion.

Out of Step: How much do you want to follow the crowd? A self-inventory.

Some people fit easily within societal norms, and life is easier for them. But what if you’re not much of a follow-the-crowd person?

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers three composite profiles, which present many ways a person might be out-of-step. Their purpose is to help you inventory the ways you are and aren’t normative and what, as we enter 2019, you might want to change...and not.

Unsung: A short-short story about our heroes

We idolize the wrong people. I explore that in a short-short story on PsychologyToday.com.