By Cliff Kuhn, M.D. The Laugh Doctor “It all starts with a SMILE”   http://www.drcliffordkuhn.com/meet.htm The holiday season presents us with a strange and unsettling paradox. While we’re constantly bombarded with images of loving families enjoying the holidays, more people commit suicide during this season than at any other time. How do we reconcile this (and […]

The other day I was speaking with some colleagues who were stressed out and complaining.   They were upset because, despite having overcome some very significant obstacles and performed above and beyond expectations they’d been subjected to a cursory critique about the cleanliness of their workplace by an off-site manager.   “Isn’t it nice to […]

A friend was moving, and asked if I would help. I quickly said yes- too quickly as it turned out. By the tenth box of heavy books I’d packed and carried to the front porch, I realized what was wrong. It wasn’t my aching back or stuffed sinuses; it was the resentment gnawing at me. […]

I will never forget the Herm Edwards post-game press conference when, as the coach of New York Jets in the midst of a losing streak, he “went off” on a reporter who asked him if losing mattered anymore. In a classic Hermism he said, “This is what’s great about sports. This is what the greatest thing […]