When I look around me while living overseas in a developing country, I see a lot of chimeras. In a lot of ways, it seems like I'm living an illusion; a fantasy life which one day I'll have to wake up from and shake off. I feel like while I'm over here doing this, I'm putting off the real

I've been married for 12 years, and one of the biggest disagreements my spouse and I have is over cilantro. I love it. I love it in Mexican food, Thai food, salads — everything. To me, it's the flavor of freshness. To my wife, it tastes like soap. Now, she has gotten used to my cooking, and if I

On Tuesday, June 14th, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new, highly controversial weight loss device called AspireAssist, which functions by allowing the user to "pump and dump" about one-third of their stomach contents straight into the toilet. The device includes a tube that goes from

Quick! Grab your phone, open your camera, and take a picture. Unless your lips are curled in a gentle smile and your eyes twinkle like a Disney princess rolling on molly, you probably have "resting bitch face." (Disclaimer: only a medical doctor can diagnose resting bitch face.).Resting bitch face,

Several years ago, I posted a link to an article about mental health on Facebook, saying that "this is worth considering." It called into question the validity of the biomedical model ("chemical imbalance") theory and suggested that promoting mental illness as a biological disease added to rather