Best way to get over a flu? Get over yourself.

So, I got the flu for the first time in years this week. I suppose that’s just the risk you run when you start being a social creature again. And, indeed, my till-now situation for many moons had been kinda like that tribe we found over in the Amazon who’d never previously made contact with the outside world. And what’d we do to ’em? What we always do. Spread our.. Read More

5 Do’s ‘n Don’ts for the common cuddle. Are you failing?

On the heels of my “smile more” article, we’re going to work on hugs. While smiling affects others in a mirror-neuron kindofa way, hugs do the same in a more in-your-face kinda way. The similarity is that both can make you happy, both can reduce stress and thus illness, and both can be spread just as virally as those illnesses you’re not getting from doing them. So after you’ve mastered.. Read More