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Denial and Tragedy

Denial and TragedyWhen I heard about the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, I packed my bags for Killeen. As a former military wife, a military mom, and a clinician specializing in mass trauma, I suspected what I would find - not so much about the motivations for Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous spree as about the military mindsets and myths that through the decades have put millions of other servicemen and servicewomen and their families in peril.
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Spending the Planet

I'm not a big fan of most conservatives. Historically speaking, they are - to put it bluntly - too often on the wrong side of history.
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Plowing in Vain?

To: City Manager Dale Fisseler Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s - the revital...
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Back to the Sofa

A few weeks ago, I did something I hadn't done in 25 years. I made my way to a college town to visit someone whose couch I could  crash on for the weekend. At t...
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Leasing Our Lives Away

Leasing Our Lives Away So you've signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You've been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known them, likely would ha...
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