Debbie Foster

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions —and to live with them.

A person with ADHD has the power of a Ferrari engine but with bicycle-strength brakes. It’s the mismatch of engine power to braking capability that causes the problems. Strengthening one’s brakes is the name of the game.

My research had reminded me of the custom of ta'arof, or never saying exactly what you mean, and three-part refusals. But I'd barely guessed, when reading of Iran, how hard it might be in life to tell where custom ends and conviction begins.

The soul or consciousness, in fact, is nothing but the unity of a sense of self over time, the bare fact that to perceive and then to articulate our perceptions something must connect from this very instant to another, and another after that.

As a reader, I am always diffusing into the world of fiction. As a writer, I cannot solidify into direct statements. As a person, I cannot solidify into someone who makes anything happen. In my most lost moments, I see myself disintegrating and drifting into everything and everyone else, floating unseen and dispersed through the world the way I

Shamans, it so happens, have a knack for becoming prophets. Survey world history, and you'll see that messianic movements often have shamans at their helms. Leveraging their supernatural connection, possessed healers promise salvation and renewal. They amass followings that destabilize the social milieu. They inspire self-sacrifice and become

Life is Cheap The brain is constantly trying to automate processes, thereby dispelling them from consciousness; in this way its work will be completed faster, more effectively and at a lower metabolic level. Consciousness, on the other hand, is slow, subject to error and ‘expensive’.

We must resist the temptation to drift along, reacting to whatever happens to us next, and deliberately select targets, from activities to relationships, that are worthy of our finite supplies of time and attention.