Years ago, I spent a milestone birthday week in Florence and experienced unbearable jet lag. Smartphones weren’t a thing, and the only available internet connection was a computer in a locked common area. I’d long finished the couple of books I’d brought and spent my…

Over a decade ago, I wrote a post about dealing with a difficult person for my Psychology Today Prescriptions for Life Blog: “Don’t Try to Reason with Unreasonable People“. It’s the most popular piece I’ve ever written. A year prior,…

I’ve had insomnia on and off since I can remember. It got worse in the last decade, due to a combination of a difficult life situation and, I assumed, getting older. A particularly hard season found me waking up at 3 am, unable to fall back asleep. The less you…