Green Man Ramblings

 Recently, while preparing a lecture on stress hormones, I came across a quote from the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst,  Slavoj Žiž...

The precocious development of a large vocabulary and the use of unusual and complex sentence structures are common elements begins of early...

On my way to class yesterday, I saw the police breaking up a temporary homeless camp just outside the college. In my classes, there are st...

There is a saying in Ireland -- "God put the blight on the potatoes.  The British put the famine on the Irish." In other words, ...

I am, by nature, a witch at the edge of the woods , as my friend Kiva would say.  Sometimes, quite literally -- right now I live in a small ...

The most common response I get when I talk about Autism is -- "You aren't really Autistic. Or at least not very much.  You can (spe...

William Blake famously spoke of the doors of perception which, if cleansed, opened into infinity.  For me, those doors of perception, my sen...