Betcha thought we’d abandoned this blog, died, been taken hostage or some other equally improbable tragedy. Truth is we had the temerity to change web hosts and got our comeuppance accordingly. Could not get this blog moved over to save our life! Then when we DID get it moved, it was missing [...]

Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle included this AP article about research on the self esteem of college students. Turns out they’ve got too much and it’s wrecking their ability to function in the interpersonal world. Here we have ourselves a case of unintended consequences. I came of age during the “human potential movement” [...]