Postcards from the Funny Farm – PFTFF

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  • Don’t breed, writer urges mental health victims

    One writer is attempting to tear down any sense of progress made in the understanding of mental health in the past 10-20 years. He is attacking ads that seek to lessen the stigma surrounding those with mental health issues.

    May 10th, 2009

  • What Would You Ask Me in an Interview?

    I’ve been asked to be interviewed for a local based blogcast Friday night (1-9-09) and I need your help assembling questions.

    January 6th, 2009

  • Defending Psychotherapy

    Depressed people are ridiculed by friends and family often because they can’t just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.” This tends to even be a sort of professional view nowadays of psychiatry and psychotherapy in general.

    December 30th, 2008

  • Do You Give to Get?

    Your answer to that question may be the reason you’re not getting what you want.
    You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
    -Dale Carnegie
    Of all his quotes, this one is the best in my opinion. [...]

    August 14th, 2008

  • My Take on M. Night Shyamalan’s Movies

    What’s your take on the M. Night?

    July 7th, 2008

  • My Article: “Public Schools’ Annual Review” Published on Associated Content

    Check out my recently published content on AC:
    Public Schools’ Annual Review
    In this article I confront the state test as assessment for public school students and teachers.  From the opinion of a teacher I challenge the notion of whether it can be an effective catch-all for our problems in education.  I hope you’ll read it and [...]

    March 14th, 2008

  • PowerPoint is a great tool! Want a Stumble?

    I’ve officially become a “regular” contributor over at Edublogs magazine which is edited by Lorelle VanFossen. This is an enormous sense of arrival for me in my writing career since education is my life and coming up fast behind is blogging.
    Lorelle has been a hero of mine in blogging for quite a while now. [...]

    February 3rd, 2008

  • Our Yahoo! Personals Success Story

    Online dating helped me find and marry my soul mate Sarah. I even found her during the “free trial” period so the service was free! I thought I’d write a blurb about Yahoo! Personals because I feature them as an advertiser. It isn’t just demographics that makes me do so (most my [...]

    January 17th, 2008

  • The Writer’s Strike: My Latest BlogCritics’ Article

    The writing strike has gone on too long, but I don’t fault the writers. Neither does Dave Letterman, now settled.
    My article at BlogCritics, The TV Writers’ Strike-Dave Letterman’s Bargain

    December 30th, 2007

  • Welcome to the Machine

    Let my machine talk to me.
    -Michael Stipe

    Do you ever watch reruns from the 70’s and 80’s, before cell phones and the internet, and think to yourself: “Was life ever really that simple?” With much technology has come much anxiety in people of the world. It used to be that to get [...]

    December 21st, 2007

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