Legalized Abortion

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Ethics

Dear Barbara, As with most of the interesting articles you pass along to me, I appreciated the recent piece entitled “Leeches, Lye and Spanish Fly,” an horrific describing of so many different dangerous ways women through the years have sought to perform...

As Strong as an Elephant

by | Jan 16, 2013 | Psychology

A friend recently shared a penetrating parable with me. He grew up in a prominent South American country, and he tells me his grandmother–he didn’t identify her as maternal or paternal–that she was a primary parenting/mentoring figure in his life. A...

Peter’s Principle

by | Jan 10, 2013 | Children and Families

I suspect you’ve heard of “The Peter Principle,” from the best-selling 1969 book bearing that title–the observation that, in most organizations, people get promoted to their highest level of incompetence. Here, however, is “Peter’s...