Dr. Carolyn Coon

  I’m afraid that I had fallen prey to the prevailing thinking that… it’s what I do, not who I am. Stuff and nonsense. What you do is who you are. I think I became somewhat enamored with that phrase because of my math background which posited that the whole is greater than the sum […]

  Depending on the subject, we all turn to an ‘expert’ that we trust to provide their opinion on the particular subject in order for us to make sense of and decide on our position on the subject. Thus, the particular source is critically important. However since the source is always a human (even abstract

  And, if your answer is, ‘no one’, then I suggest you take stock of you and your behavior. My belief is that we all are trying to please someone. It’s really OK as long as the one you are attempting to please is worth your effort. You see, we choose who we will please.

  What a great word! The word can be used in so many ways and in so many situations and, contrary to many words, everyone understands what you are trying to do – lump disparate items together without really identifying what they are or do… or even if they are related in any fashion. It’s where you can ‘put’

  “I know what you feel/think/etc.” Quite honestly, I cringe when I hear those words. I try very hard not to use them, but I’m guilty too. There’s no way to actually know what another person is feeling or thinking. However, I also realize it’s an attempt to make them feel that they are not all alone,

  Where do you have your eyes? Are you looking forward? Or are you turning around and looking at where you’ve been? Or are you looking inward at something very personal? Or are you looking at nothing in particular? Perspective is extremely personal. No one can have precisely the same perspective as the next person because they

  I’ve either said this or implied it many times and whether we want to acknowledge it or not – I/me is our favorite topic of discussion, overt or unspecified. Before you get huffy, it isn’t all that unusual… ‘I’ is what/who we know. We react to all the stimuli that we encounter from our frame of

  I HATE to wait – on anything, at any time! It might be part of my impatience package, but I must admit, waiting is my least favorite thing to do. Unfortunately this is rarely the same mindset of those causing others to wait. They ‘operate’ on a different perspective. While I think it is most

  Do you know what it is, and subsequently means, to make someone ‘lord’?  How do you ”make’ someone Lord? Unfortunately, I think this too is a word that we use but don’t define and assume that others have the same attitude and understanding. But do we? I checked Webster and discovered that the word

  Yes… I have one. It is basically under control but every once in a while it seems to sneak in and take the control. I remember that when I was a child I was always cautioned about not ‘losing’ my temper. Initially I thought that was a strange comment because why wouldn’t you want to