addictions | addictions
Mar.02.2013
My husband, Tom and I, are avid Sherlock Holmes fans and own the complete collection of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock. About once a year, we recycle our series, grateful that, despite the perfection of the episodes, we rarely remember them long enough to interfere with our enjoyment of watching them...
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Feb.13.2013
A common and disturbing issue that happens with teenagers concerns addictions and self-harm. According to the World Health Organization, 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression, which often leads to self-harm and addiction. According to the National Institute of Mental Health...
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Jan.07.2013
Brave the New World
5 STARS
When we think of addicts, we think of people without opportunities, education, or lives worth living. We think of the streets, violence, stupors, and lack of restraint. Sometimes we think of celebrities and musicians who live a life of...
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Nov.10.2012
Our friend Webster defines “addiction” as “compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal.”
The number of different addictions (which today includes the title of compulsive obsession behaviors) seems to...
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Jul.03.2012
Poor Rush Limbaugh. On his July 3 show he predicted the end of professional football as we know it. Petulantly defending the sport as "more popular in the offseason than other sports during their regular seasons," Limbaugh still predicted the demise of rock'em sock'em pro football because, you...
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May.05.2012
In an ideal world, teen years should include dating, shopping for new clothes, slumber parties, school football games, making new friendships, striving for a 4.0 grade average, the prom and crushes on your Biology teacher. Unfortunately, this isn’t an ideal world. It never has been. For those of us...
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Jan.03.2012
Although not addicted to farts (as was James Joyce) I have created a most onomatopoeic word for flatulence, which I will use with explosive succinctness when such a need occurs. And though not addicted to morgues (as was Charles Dickens) I have long wanted to attend an autopsy. I share an interest...
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Oct.03.2011
God grant me the serenity...
My father was an alcoholic. The first time I smelled it on his breath, he hugged me tight. It stung, Jack's first kiss on my left cheek. I was four years old when I saw the rage. It made his eyes bleed; beet red with a hint of terror. He smacked me across...
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May.30.2011
As I sat there in the foodcourt of the local mall I noticed a person texting on their cell phone. As I sipped on my Pepsi, I let my eyes wander and then saw someone else doing the same. In each case, that person was with someone else. Still, I took it all in. There were 37 people texting...
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Oct.22.2010
It's a BAG RAFFLE, for heavens sakes. One does not get exercised about a fifty-cent reusable bag.
Of course not. And one does not go to the grocery store to win prizes. One goes to Trader Joe's because they have those great bananas for seventeen cents each... or all those nifty gluten-free choices...
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