Tomorrow is the beginning of the high Holiday Chanukah, the Jewish celebration of resistance and resilience: “a small candle can go a long way”. One of the comforts of not being committed to a religion, yet appreciative of true benign traditions, is, first, the peace of tolerance. Believe me: tolerance feels good. Second, to take […]
Chag sameach to my Jewish friends Read More »
(written on December, 23, 2014) I don’t share religious views on social media as I don’t share who I vote for, or other personal items. Whatever personal content I share is for entertainment purposes only, like goblins and gnomes. Today, however, I will share perhaps one of the only items that I still hang on to
Christmas, you guys, traditions and conventions Read More »
The outrage game. It goes like this (and we’ve all been guilty, at some point): ORIGIN: a fight, a lift, a meet Outrage wave 1: proficient and experienced outragers come out with one or more outrage claims (“high squat”, “no standards”, “bad judging”, “talks shit”, “coward”, “shitty striking”, “shitty grappling”, “poked his eyes”). Seconds later,
1. Some are inevitable but manageable; some are avoidable; some are inevitable, period. 2. Among the avoidable are extremely intense forms of virilization (if this is not the goal, as in sex transitioning), usually related to poor understanding of the dose-response relation. In the sub-culture of the strength sports there is a wrong assumption according
PED (Performance Enhancing Drugs) side effects and women Read More »
The use of IQ, BMI and other quantitative indicators in health: they are neither individually significant or irrelevant. Yes, they are all important in the assessment of public – epidemic or endemic – issues, such as educational policies, hunger or obesity. Today it is somewhat consensual that intelligence is not ONE manifestation of the human
The use of quantitative indicators in health: IQ and BMI Read More »
I’m a motherly coach. I’ve been told that and I was even given some very cute nicknames because of that, the best one being Khaleesi. But I have a template: my master, Angelo Pio Buonafina, who brought me, in this version of myself, into the world. Which brings me to the topic of coaches as
The coach as a surrogate parent Read More »
Growth is inevitable. A living organism will grow or mature through time. Nothing can stop that. Whether it is healthy growth or stunted, mutilated, malformed growth, it will happen. It happens to all of us. Invertebrate metamorphosis, ecdysis in particular, is a rich source of metaphoric thinking about our growth. So let’s dive and swim
Ecdysis: reclusion before change and rebirth Read More »
I have been reviewing the literature about difficulty in communicating with non-literal speech. Almost everybody I know suggested that this is my case, to the point of comedy and tragedy. Very frequently, this is a sign of some form of autism (the spectrum is wide). Maybe that’s the case, maybe not. I’ve also been praised for
Bare truth, the real self, vulnerability, trauma and disclosure (and the bar, of course) Read More »
Sub-clinical manifestations of behaviors such as cleaning, checking, counting, symmetry-making and even hoarding are beneficial to the individual and the group. There is evidence that their modern expression is a result of even more significant evolutionary advantages.
The minimalism debate Read More »
Who hasn’t done that? I’ve never been much of a “thing” person, I don’t collect anything, anymore. I don’t even collect my own trophies (I left them all behind). There were moments of slight anxiety when letting go of the last book in my private library. Thoughts such as “… but I don’t remember anything
“Let’s keep this/buy this/get this – I may need it some time” Read More »
