Brain Food
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Brain Food #876: Where fear leads us
Fear is traditionally seen as an indicator of something we should run away from, a sign of fight or flight. Sometimes, we do exactly this: we switch off the news, or avoid uncomfortable situations or conversations because we may be afraid o...
Brain Food #875: Being in time as a woman
We enter the world by chance, and chance determines much of how we will experience it. Though the odds of being male or female at conception are roughly 50/50, slightly more boys are born than girls, about 105 to every 100. Over the long ru...
Brain Food #874: How not to be cows in a field
This is a companion piece to my first post of 2026 on why we should continue to live with our questions. It is our impossible questions that keep us going—even the unpleasant ones, the circumstances in our lives that we spend most of our en...
Brain Food #873: Blurring the lines between the years
The turn of a year marks the need for closure and new beginnings, the drawing of a clean line that distinguishes between the before and the after. Maybe the year that ended did not bring with it momentous, desirable change. Or maybe it did,...
Brain Food #872: On giving thanks and expecting nothing
The gospel of Luke contains the story of the cleansing of the ten lepers. Jesus healed all of them, but only one returned to give thanks. Jesus then said, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they?”
In his book On Benefi...
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