Reflections on form and emptiness
Sunday, March 5, 2017 Glendale, California Dear Lovely Readers, Immersed in a recent obsession with Taoism, I write today about form and... Read More
Mood and weather
Saturday, February 25, 2017 Glendale, California 2pm Dear Readers, I write in an extremely irritable, annoyed, bitchy mood, prompting me to blog... Read More
Complexity, the Ninth Circuit, Twitter, and Psychoanalysis
Glendale, California Sunday, February 12, 2017 Dearest of Readers, Last Wednesday I had the thrill of watching my friend, Ron Novotny, Esq,... Read More
Politics and Primitive Mental Functioning
Sunday, February 5, 2017 Glendale, California My Dear Readers, You’ve heard of the idea of psychological defense mechanisms like denial, suppression, sublimation,... Read More
Finding Yourself In The Post-Truth World
Glendale, California January 29, 2017 Just days before the media blanketed us with “alternative facts” and other newly popular distortions of truth,... Read More
Twitter: A Disturbance in the Force of Dialogue
Sunday, January 21, 2017 Glendale, California (Pouring Rain with Flood Warnings!) I have written recently about the problem with trusting the accuracy... Read More
Post-Truth, China, and Psychoanalysis
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Hong Kong, China Dearest Tolerant Readers, Every year, the Oxford English Dictionary selects its favorite word for the... Read More
Income Disparity and Effective Living
Thursday, January 12, 2017 Guilin, China Dearest Readers, While hiding out here in South China between lectures about psychoanalysis, the World Bank... Read More
Integrating Cultures; Integrating Minds
Thursday, January 3, 2017 Shanghai, China My Dear Readers, Landing in Shanghai yesterday after 14 hours nonstop flying from Los Angeles, I... Read More
One-Dimensional Humans
Monday, January 2, 2017 Glendale, California My Dear Readers, Turning 60 ain’t fun, but it seems you finally have more time for... Read More