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By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Making things with your hands gets a bad rap today. It’s so blue-collar. You’re a failure if you don’t go to college to get a...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I was taken aback when I heard she had written a new book. She had disappeared from sight over 30 years ago after a devastating injury....

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Leo Tolstoy wrote “What Then Must We Do?”back in 1887, stating“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Since Donald Trump entered the national consciousness in 2016, he has harped on everything wrong with America. While it’s healthy to...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Our plummeting life expectancy is an extraordinary event that flies in the face of past historical patterns. We are dying younger than...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Ecology is usually thought of as a study of nature. But because it is derived from the Greek word for household, ecology literally means...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I love New Hampshire and always will. But, I have to admit, living in the Bay area of California this winter opened my eyes to a few...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. It’s just the way we are built. Each half of our brain looks at the world differently: our left hemisphere is cognitive and sequential,...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I’ve spent the better part of the winter in California, arriving at the first of the year in a rare atmospheric river producing gale...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Artificial intelligence, in the form of large-scale language models like ChatGPT, is causing some to say the sky is falling. My biggest...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. James Speth, the former dean of Environmental Studies at Yale, made this confession. He had previously considered the greatest...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. New Hampshire has done it again: increasing our gambling addiction rather than passing a broad-based tax.New Hampshire has a checkered...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Writing my first draft on a computer doesn’t work for me. I lose my mojo. Yet, if I scribble my thoughts in my left-handed scowl on...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I wrote last week about why our national economy can’t endlessly grow, and neither can individuals. That has viscerally hit home for me...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The sky is falling, cried the media last week. Headlines blared that China’s population has started declining and will shrink...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I’ve written before about how I’ve been trying to focus on positive alternatives to counteract today’s dominant “the sky is falling”...

By JEAN STIMMELL

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a serious mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of...

By JEAN STIMMELL

I had a dream the other night I can’t shake: I am driving through a desolate land, over a maze of logging trails, trying to find the location of my new job, when suddenly a giant snapping turtle, almost as wide as my truck, steps into the path and...