On June 19, 1939, a 12-year-old girl experienced the loss of the home her family moved into four days earlier. A mob of 500 people who didn’t want her kind there destroyed the home, and it was burnt to the ground. Fourteen law enforcement vehicles were at the scene that evening but they did nothing …
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Stress and the Brain
In sharing this, I risk over-simplifying something I learned from the book “The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves” by Eric Kandel. As a side note, it is a fascinating book for anyone interested in how the mind works. Here is the part that I still remember over a year later, in …
Setting the Stage
I had a whole page written about why I am writing, and what kinds of interactions are acceptable here. But it’s really simple. I’m human. I’m going to make mistakes and get things wrong, even though I’m not going to try to do that. I’ll probably offend people too. And like so many of us, …