Holiday stress is a big topic these days. Stress around money, gifts, religion, traffic, other people’s holiday stress too much work or no work. Whatever stress has affected us all year gets magnified in December. And then, its the new year. So, we make resolutions that we hope will help us alleviate the stress from December. A lot of people…

I am getting tired of all the candidates and everyone else in office trying to out relgious each other. Why do they have to prove their faith. At this point I would prefer a quiet athiest who at least doesn’t think they have messages from god that determine how they govern. I rather people keep their religious beliefs out of…

The December holiday season can be a time when people of different backgrounds come together and share traditions. While the majority of people in the USA celebrated Christmas, there are large numbers of people who are not Christian who don’t celebrate Christmas. i’m one of those people. I’m Jewish but I’m part of an interfaith, intercultural family, so I get…

I often hear people who oppose any discussion on diversity complain and say “you can’t say anything any more without being accused of being a racist, sexist, or whatever” I usually get irritated when I hear that, because in general that is not true and is usually a passive-aggressive way of not taking responsibility for being offensive. But I do…

i took the Bart train from San Francisco to Berkeley the other day. When I got on in downtown San Francisco, I noticed that most of the seats were taken by high school kids from one of the more expensive private schools in the city, while most of the people standing were older adults. I thought about growing up in…

Some people are claiming that the main reason for childhood obesity is because both parents are working, and in particular because mothers are no longer home to send their children out to play, and being too busy to cook so they take their children out for fast food. To me this is an example of so-called “experts” skewing statistics to…