Why We Own the Misery of Erin Moran

The untimely death of child actress Erin Moran over the weekend — at age 56, her body was discovered in an Indiana trailer park — leaves an abyss in each of us even though we may not recognize the depth, and the severity, of the hole. For those of us of a certain age, Erin Moran, will always be Joanie — the spunky, spicy, daughter on the first season of Happy Days.

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Dr. Howard Stein and the Habit of Intelligent Choice

At the end of the nineteenth century, in a graduation speech to Barnard College graduates, William James made the following statement:

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