How Public Health and Censorship Further Escalate Child Sexual Abuse
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I shouldn’t have been surprised at my rejection from a Ph.D. program in public
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Chronic: Pain We Don’t See, Chapter 4
Top illustration by Tim Forkes Chapter 4: Flying Solo Thursday: March 19, 2020 Like most everything else, TMS is on
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Chapter 3: It Began Early Sunday: March 8, 2020 Experts say there is a link between pain and depression. Sometimes
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Top illustration by Tim Forkes Chapter 2: One Gigantic Gamble Saturday: February 8, 2020 The cost of seeking an end
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Illustration by Tim Forkes Introduction It is easy to tug at our hearts with images of people suffering from illness.
Read moreFebruary letters: A new president, COVID vaccines, another impeachment and Tom Brady
Letters to Jim: February 2021 Oh, boy, this new year is so different than a year ago. It’s like last
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Perils of Social Media and Free Speech
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay With the suspension of President Donald Trump’s accounts on Twitter and Facebook, much focus
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Craziness Is the Cure: Why the Literary Matters
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay When I first read Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” I hated it.
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Letters to Jim: January 2021 If you are reading this, consider yourself a very lucky person. You survived 2020 which
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Let’s Mess with Texas: How Netflix Cuties’ Indictment will Criminalize Little Girls
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay On September 23, a Texas grand jury returned an indictment on Netflix for the film
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