Life seems pretty easy sometimes. The fundamentals of it are really straightforward. Life among others is not without its complications though. Working together, coordinating, coexisting isn’t always the simplest thing for us to do. We…
I was nervous about my run today. I’m nervous about a lot of them, maybe that’s not such a terrible thing though. I used to be able to rattle off 10 mile runs like they…
As you lovely followers may or may not know, I am a big fan of the ukulele (and tacos too, but that’s a subject for another blog) and I can play along quite happily to…
Motivation sort of comes and goes for me. When I started getting back into shape in 2013 I figured out that I need some ridiculous goal to keep me motivated. Being sort of terrified that…
Way back in 2013, I started getting myself back into shape. A month or so after I began going back to the gym, I picked out a shiny goal to keep me on track. The…
I like Neil Young, he’s always seemed like an interesting person in the world of music. Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, the Crazy Horse years…he makes great music and seems to try and give a voice to…
Being the general purpose psychology nerd that I am, I like to at least skim through articles that pop up that are related to some aspect of psychological science and that is how I came…
Hey MODzenters, I’m jumping out of the classroom on August 21 to talk about why you shouldn’t have slept through Intro Psychology! Beside the obvious reasons why you shouldn’t sleep through class we’re going to…
My students know my fondness for Freud. After all, I do have a plastic Sigmund Freud action figure that comes to class with me. I also have a plush Sigmund Freud doll and a coffee…
So you may know, or you may not, that I teach psychology. I spent a lot of time in school studying it and then tried to put it out of my head for very many…