Neuroscience
A Glimmer of Light: Divorce & Breakups May Not Feel As Bad As You Think
It is a rare person who isn’t stricken by grief, fear, and bewilderment when first learning of his or her imminent divorce. Who wouldn’t be overwhelmed by the earth’s sudden shift on its axis, a jolting of reality that is best explained by the word, “surreal?” It isn’t only about dividing your real and personal…
Read MoreThe Fallability of Certainty
You can’t know exactly what’s going on in your neighbor’s house or in his head or his heart. You can make suppositions, you can make assumptions, but you always have to factor in that you can’t know. ~Interview with John Patrick Shanley, playwright What does it mean to feel “certain?” Is it knowledge? Intuition? In…
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