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My name is Gabrielle, and I’m a recovering over-thinker.
“Recovering” is the operative word. For the past 15 years, I’ve worked hard to overcome my addiction to over-thinking.
I was 16 when I realized I was addicted to my thoughts. These thoughts were merely fearful illusions I’d created based on my past experiences and my uncertainty about the future. I was totally consumed by my thoughts, and they often manifested in the form of funky

Who knew comedian Ricky Gervais could be serious? Better yet, who knew we would share anything in common? But his blog post about getting older and life being too short struck a familiar chord and got me thinking, “who knew?”
Like Ricky, my youthful and current photos would mock each other if they could. As I get older (and I have a few more years on him!), my vision has also gotten worse, but my passion and convictions have become stronger.
My passion is to bring an end to Senior Hunger in the U.S. by

“When my child said that, I heard what she was really saying: ‘What will happen to me if mommy dies?’” says Bill Liao, serial Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist and one of the smartest, wisest and most grounded people I know.
Liao goes on to explain, “When a child asks that question, they are feeling how deeply dependent they are on their mom and how unfathomably awful, and maybe ever unsurvivable, life would be without her.”
Liao was sitting on his daughter’s bed, listening to her fears at 2 a.m. and trying desperately to think on his feet while he answered not just her question, but her need.
Here are the steps he took to help that child go from unfathomable to survivable and beyond.
1. As a lifelong seeker of understanding, Liao knew that perceptions and anticipated fears were nearly always much worse than actual

It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion. With the budget debate and debt crisis dominating the news we thought that one voice (crying in the wilderness) wasn’t really being heard – apparently 5000 pastors agreed and placed their circle of protection around the poor. Interesting that even some of our uber-pious potential presidential nominees don’t seem to be making the religious argument for protecting the rich or war. In the future, we are looking for more meaningful and relevant preaching in America – stay

It is summer vacation time and for most of us that means that we take a break from the normal routine. Oh, we may still be working long hours and wish that we could “get away,” but there is oft times a relaxation in the day-to-day pace of life, with long hours of sun and warmth.
Oh, summertime! But what does it mean, if anything, for the teachings and practices of religion?
Our dominant Judeo-Christian heritage places great importance upon winter and its symbolism of the return of light with the passing of the solstice. In turn, Spring and the return of life plays heavily in our religious

As I write this article a few hours after the U.S. Women’s Soccer team beat France in the World Cup semifinals, I know that if they lose in the finals, the American excitement toward soccer will wane once again. To be perfectly honest, soccer in our country will continue to be considered a boring, low-scoring game that rarely generates interest or excitement among American sports fans.
But, for now, U.S. Soccer — nay,

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro, the “House of the Future”. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. It reflects the optimistic vision of the future and the utopian spirit of that time.
In 1965, Matti Suuronen was commissioned to design a mobile holiday home that could be erected in poorly accessible skiing areas. The house had to be lightweight, easy to transport and deploy, and suitable for serial

By now you’ve probably heard of the “Cindy Sherman of the Monkey World,” as we dubbed her recently. While working in an Indonesian national park, British nature photographer David Slater had his camera purloined by a clever macaque monkey who took several self-portraits, apparently fascinated by her own reflection in the lens. The exceptionally charming images that resulted caught the eye of Britain’s Daily Mail and won the cheeky monkey fans around the world, as well as “calling into question notions of personae, monkeyhood, affect, and the history of photography itself,” as we put it.
This photo of a clever monkey posing with photographer David Slater is at the center of a lively copyright dispute
/ Courtesy Caters News service in solidarity with Techdirt
We were being tongue-in-cheek, but as it turns out the images have indeed called the very nature of photography into question. The pics are now at the center of a lively debate about copyright, with implications not just for Slater but for the entire world of animal art (yes, there is a world of animal art).
After hearing about the accidental monkey masterpieces, the Web site Techdirt posted a short essay musing on the fact that several of the images bore a credit line attributing them to the U.K.-based Caters News Agency, for which Slater

Finding inspiration in Emily Dickinson’s poem Doom is the House without the Door, this exhibition considers the idea of the home as a charged, psychological space. Frequently identified with her family’s home, where she produced much of her work, Dickinson has been described as an “eccentric recluse, wedded to her interiority.” Feminist scholar Diana Fuss has argued that for Dickinson, “interiority was a complicated conceptual problem, continually posited and reexamined in a body of writing that relies heavily on spatial metaphors to advance its recurrent themes.” Similarly, the works in The House Without the Door are characterized by their ability to explore myriad issues related to interiority and domesticity–such as agoraphobia, self-imprisonment, domestic abuse, and memory–through understated, yet compelling gestures.
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Insomniacs are all alike, but every insomniac suffers in his or her own way. Oh, the war stories no one wants to hear! Yawn. My sympathies are with you, though. I understand what it’s like to feel like roadkill morning after tired

Seems like everywhere you go someone in the media is talking about bedbugs. Most recently, a study compiled by Terminix, a pest control service company, ranked the top most infested cities in 2011. Among those in the study include: Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia and, edging out all of the competition at number one, New York.
So, why are these little bloodsucking critters not going away? It would seem that with all the news stories, we as a public would know the precautions needed in place so that we don’t find ourselves battling a case of the

Harry Potter mania is in full effect this week, with the arrival of the blockbuster series’ final cinematic installment. As the ubiquitous movie posters say, “It All Ends.” Here in the Muggle world, a similar dark sense of finality hangs over the swirling debt ceiling debate, with its looming August 2 deadline. In that drama, DC’s lead actors have been slipping in and out of character.
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Actor Giancarlo Esposito. Portrait by Leslie Hassler.
Giancarlo Esposito’s performance in Breaking Bad’s fourth season premiere was so electrifying that, as Woody Allen once said, “All the blood went out of my face and went to my brother.”
You can hold on to your seat, but that is no guarantee that you’ll be able to stay in it.
We sit in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, watching Walter White and Jesse Pinkman go up against their boss and “King-pin” Gus Fring (Esposito) in a moment that is so pivotal and gruesome

TL;DR: Being a woman in the tech industry is awesome if you love technology enough to push through the more difficult parts.
Right off the bat, a disclaimer: It’s very difficult to answer this question broadly. Not all experiences are the same. However, I can share my personal experience because it might contribute to some larger themes if enough women participate on this thread. So, here’s my

Breathlessly, six members of Congress have requested that the FBI investigate the “outrageous” allegations that News Corp might have hacked into the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. Lickety split, the Justice Department has done so.
First off, does it surprise me that a corporation like News Corp. might try to hack into the information of private citizens for their own financial gain?

Earlier this year, I ran a little thought experiment. The results left me wondering whether the combatants in the Bible wars are addressing the wrong question.
I’ve found myself on both sides of this conflict. As an extreme literalist in high school, I took every word of Holy Writ to be literally true, for all time. Today I see the Bible as the writings of people about God — people of limited viewpoints and cultural biases and histories — with vital strands of God’s truth and wisdom contained therein.
Granted, these two approaches are more points on a spectrum than polar

Today, in most minds, the words “liberalism” and “Islam” can come together only to form an oxymoron. However, this was not the case a century ago. The Islamic world was still much less open and democratic then the West, but most intellectuals and statesmen of that world were self-declared liberals.
One of the vanguards of this forgotten trend was an intellectual group in the late Ottoman Empire — which then covered almost the whole Muslim Middle East — called Young

The recent experience of the near calamitous meltdown of the financial system was a clear indication of what can happen when unbridled greed and inadequate regulation are given free rein. The controversies swirling around News Corp are another ugly example of what happens when an ethical values system isn’t in place in the boardroom and powerful, intimidating personalities are given permission to create a culture that prizes “scooping” their competitors over serving the public good.
The question is: what can these debacles teach us about the role of ethics and morality in the marketplace and, perhaps more importantly, are we ready to learn?
As the director of the Faith Consistent Investment ministry of my congregation, I have been engaged in shareholder advocacy and corporate social responsibility since the early 70s. Recognizing the enormous influence global corporations have to impact the “common good”, my colleagues and I press CEOs and management to scrutinize their business practices on a myriad of issues from policies on lending and executive compensation, to water use in drought-prone areas and to human rights abuses in the supply chain wherever they source products or

The American team has made it to the Women’s World Cup. Although it’s a huge accomplishment, it does not attract the same attention as if it were the men’s team. I only found out about it today on Facebook, my most trusted news source, and there was but one lonely post about it on my newsfeed. Come on,

Are you happier today than you were yesterday? As yesterday has already been and tomorrow has not come, do not waste any more time not being happy!
This is a part of Ed and Deb Shapiro’s Daily Chill Pill series.
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A few months back I had a quick exchange with President Obama about the U.S. standing in the Arab World. When I mentioned that we would be conducting a poll to assess Arab attitudes two years after his Cairo speech, he responded that he expected that the ratings would be quite low and would remain low until the U.S. could help find a way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian

When the world weighs heavy on your shoulders, the government turns its back on you and the facts of life look so hard and cold you can feel them in your gut, I suggest you take some time out to practice the gratitude game. My daughter and I play it when one of us is feeling out of sorts. It consists in simply thinking of all the reasons you have to be grateful. You can make up your own list, but please feel free to borrow some of our

Work is a central part of the lives of most people. It is a source of personal identity and self-definition. It is a source of day-to-day structure and of social interaction. Work can be a source of