After delivering graduation speech as principal of a Catholic school a woman I examined thought something so terribly wrong that she petitioned the Monsignor to give her last rights before coming to the hospital. She confessed to him three separate times not recalling she’d already done so.   She felt disoriented. She is an intelligent…

Working with an Iranian colleague I like to talk a lot and we got along well. I did have the impression we were both educated moderates.  I do get excited about music. On the way into work I was listening to Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and unsatisfied about not hearing the whole thing the first…