My wife was concerned that the potatoes she put in boiling water to mash were taking longer than the traditional 20 minutes to soften properly. I suggested to her that she may have cut them a bit too big and that the heat had just not fully penetrated all the way through, providing what I thought was a sound scientific explanation. When she informed me that I should not tell a person on Irish descent how to mash potatoes, I...

I was catching up with my nephew the other day when he mentioned that his pre-teen daughter had broken both her wrists over the summer. “What,” I inquired, “How did that happen?” He told me that she fell off her scooter playing in the yard and when she went to break her fall, she fell awkwardly and “boom”, 2 broken wrists. He told me it was a challenging summer for her but one of the good things that happened is...

“The world is divided into people who think they are right.” Last week’s Resilient Wednesday received a lot of reader mail regarding The Notorious RBG and AGS, which is representative of the tension and frustration many people are experiencing as we are dealing with the effects of the Pandemic, issues around racial justice, and the upcoming election. If resilience is going to have a place in alleviating these anxieties and worries, we need more strategies to help us both cope...