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Thinking About ADHD

I read with interest the recent pieces in the NY Times (Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? By Paul Tough.) I am the grateful parent of adult children with ADHD (and other challenges.) I am also an ADHD and executive skills coach, a former special education teacher and learning specialist, and an individual …

“Creativity is about experimenting — failing, failing again, failing better, as Beckett said.”

This is a wonderful interview with author Paul Theroux. Here’s an excerpt: “Naipaul was a deeply flawed man — tantrum-prone and depressive — but a magnificent writer. His great gift to me was of encouragement. Everyone needs it, not only writers. Everyone. Naipaul would say, after reading something of mine, “You’re going to be all …

How to Thrive in an Uncertain World

Humans naturally need answers and so typically find uncertainty aversive. With a presidential election, war erupting in multiple zones, rising climate volatility and myriad other types of flux, it’s easy to feel overwhelming angst for the future and see certainty as a beacon in a darkening time.