Is It Ever Too Soon to Do a Life Review?
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. — Colette As a therapist, I know the value of the life review. Having worked with elders in nursing homes and home care as a social...
View ArticleHow Your Career Can Benefit From A Master’s Degree
— College is a very liberating experience. It allows you to practice different values such as patience, perseverance, and independence, to mention a few. It also allows you to learn new ones. With all...
View Article5 Ways to Find Funds for Academic Editing
Here are some tried and true strategies for graduate students and faculty. Higher education is under attack and budgets are shrinking. Let’s be real, though. We’re told the sky is falling, but there’s...
View ArticleI Used to Feel Ashamed of My Autism: Here’s What I Feel Now
—When it comes to my life, the part of my identity that I feel the strongest attachment to is my love of music. I couldn’t have learned so much about music history without Autism. I can name a musical...
View ArticleDate Night
Embed from Getty Images—My wife and I are going on a dinner date tonight. It will be the first time in two years that the two of us have had a date night alone. We are still very much in love, happily...
View ArticleTax Bill’s Attack on Higher Education Undermines America’s Economic Vitality
Embed from Getty Images—Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa BarbaraWith the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first...
View ArticleThe Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.comWhat happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains.______The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
View ArticleAlone at Life’s Threshold
College senior Dan Ferman admits he’s scared. Nevertheless, he embraces the challenges ahead.—Many say that your college years are the best years of your life. Well, they’re right. What these same...
View ArticleSeven Things Every New Entrepreneur Must Know
A lifelong entrepreneur dishes on the things they’re not telling you in business school.1. This job is rough, tough, and most likely not for you.The vast majority of people I talk to who want to...
View ArticleWhy Black Women Also Fear Black Men
Though the fear of black men by white people is based on racist stereotypes, black women’s fear is rooted in a lifetime of experience.Black masculinity is a site of contradiction: a stigmatized and...
View ArticleLast Place
How do you come to love the place you call home?The last place in the world that I wanted to live was New York City.My brother had just plagiarized me—my poorly masked ripoff of Batman in short story...
View ArticleLiving With Cataclysmic News
A diagnosis can change or end everything you thought you knew about your world. CW Nahumck is struggling with that today. It had been two and a half weeks since the last time we visited the doctor....
View ArticleThe Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.comWhat happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains.______The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
View ArticleAlone at Life’s Threshold
College senior Dan Ferman admits he’s scared. Nevertheless, he embraces the challenges ahead.—Many say that your college years are the best years of your life. Well, they’re right. What these same...
View ArticleSeven Things Every New Entrepreneur Must Know
A lifelong entrepreneur dishes on the things they’re not telling you in business school.1. This job is rough, tough, and most likely not for you.The vast majority of people I talk to who want to...
View ArticleWhy Black Women Also Fear Black Men
Though the fear of black men by white people is based on racist stereotypes, black women’s fear is rooted in a lifetime of experience.Black masculinity is a site of contradiction: a stigmatized and...
View ArticleLast Place
How do you come to love the place you call home?The last place in the world that I wanted to live was New York City.My brother had just plagiarized me—my poorly masked ripoff of Batman in short story...
View ArticleLiving With Cataclysmic News
A diagnosis can change or end everything you thought you knew about your world. CW Nahumck is struggling with that today. It had been two and a half weeks since the last time we visited the doctor....
View ArticleThe Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.com What happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains. ______ The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
View ArticleAlone at Life’s Threshold
College senior Dan Ferman admits he’s scared. Nevertheless, he embraces the challenges ahead. — Many say that your college years are the best years of your life. Well, they’re right. What these same...
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