Thorne's story plunges into the troubled waters of modern hospice care, even as it swims with the prehistoric sharks of family squabbles and old wounds.
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Students Need Enough Time To Eat Lunch and Enjoy Recess
The overriding issue is the way Americans perceive lunch and eating in general – as something to get done quickly.
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In this long but engrossing play set in a mental health clinic, Rabe outlines each character's distinctive battleground, where counselors defend and encourage them against their tendencies to self-harm.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Good for Otto’ by David Rabe
The play buffets us from patient to patient, crisis to crisis, and dream sequence to real-life therapy. Artifice this skillful glows with a heightened authenticity. The glittering cast including Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Rhea Perlman, Mark Linn-Baker, and F. Murray Abraham.
Read More »Healthy Cooking Program Feeds Female Prison Inmates Vital Skills
The simple act of learning what is good to put in your body and how to budget for the healthy food you need, along with how to prepare it, should be taught not only in every prison, but in every school and in every household in America. One Arkansas program for female inmates is lighting the way.
Read More »Addiction Recovery: The Mind-Body-Soul Approach
Meditation, exercise, and spirituality combined may offer the best chance for addiction recovery.
Read More »The Beauty of Solitude and Silence
In my humble opinion, everyone in the world could use a little more solitude.
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The biggest contributing factor involved in foodborne illness in prisons is food left at room temperature too long.
Read More »Work Stress: Don’t Let It Be the Death of You
Occupational stress is a dangerous game that can control your life and even send you into the wrong kind of early retirement.
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In the first half of this month poison control centers handled 39 cases of teenagers exposing themselves to the pods, which is as many cases for all of last year.
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