How we wallow in our selective grief
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IN MY church yesterday morning, we prayed for the murdered hostage Kenneth Bigley after we had prayed for a faithful parishioner who died in his bed.
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Rip up those obituaries. The club you thought had passed away still has more than enough life left in it. Enough to beat the champions.
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Tim Wakefield put it behind him a long, long time ago. It was never healthy to dwell on something so upsetting and so devastating. If you let negative experiences define you, then moving forward is practically impossible.
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Our emotions allow us to ignore some threats as we grow overly concerned with others
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Advertisers are increasingly tailoring their messages to mothers who, they are certain, are dying to spend more time on themselves but feel too guilty to do so.
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When Carol Lewis's father-in-law died, family members circled his hospital bed to pray, expecting to offer their final goodbyes peacefully. Then his body suddenly started to lurch.
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A strategy to cope with the market's malaise.
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In the faraway past, I was a psych major in college, and it was then that I discovered the useful word &quot;projection.&quot; It was, as I recall, the tendency to assign to others the attributes or faults you had within yourself.
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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Did you get an invite to the pity party?
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AS THE grim images of parents weeping inconsolably over their children&#39;s graves were beamed into drawing-rooms the world over, few eyes would have been dry or hearts un-enraged at the fiends who target children.
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Here are two ways to make the most of your losers.
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Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal With so many large tragedies going on in the world, it&#39;s easier to comprehend the small sadness of change.
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Not everyone has a date for Valentine's Day. Help them spend away their grief.
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For the first month or so after my heart attack (at age 38, no family history, no obvious risk factors apart from being a man), I left the light on at night and cried myself to sleep. Having been startled by my own mortality -- the inevitability of it, the unfairness of it -- I was certain I was ...
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"I am not ashamed of my tears," Pastor Dennis K. Butts Sr. said in opening the funeral for Jessie Davis on Saturday. "Tears are a gift from God. Today is a good day to cry."
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Often, that emotion is compounded by exhaustion, an incredible sense of loss, even rage that somebody took the life of someone you love.