Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?.

Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixa….

If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle ….

There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three wee….

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives..

It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Ne….

Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair con….

Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor o….

When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mo….

When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way o….

Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from a….

These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happe….

Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the tradi….

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with a….

Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the belove….

Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral mass….

Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the pic….

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?….

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick..

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment..

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there..