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What is happening? I asked myself as a twelve-year-old boy. The question determined my life trajectory. In the summer of 1959, my brother and I attended a Catholic boys camp outside of our hometown of Milwaukee, as we had in previous summers. What was different that year was a long-planned and long-anticipated family summer vacation. We had never taken a family vacation before - and, as it turned out, we never would. As our father picked us up from camp in the family '57 Ford station wagon,...

For more than three decades, I have said to my three, now very adult, children: "Lucky is the child who inherits "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy." Thirty years ago, I spent $24.95 on a pristine copy. It was a Christmas present to the family. Today, the dictionary still exists, but in four pieces. It bears unmistakable red pasta sauce stains. Other stains are not so easily identified. It was one of the best purchases of my life. I recently thought of that dictionary while reading a...

For Those I Serve For more than five decades, I have been privileged to serve as a psychiatrist, caring for my patients and their families. For several years I have searched for the right way to give even more to the care I offered. I knew that I wanted to share more. I wished to better inform my patients and families. I cared for thousands of patients. I read hundreds of books, attended scores of conferences, and studied for oh so many tests and examinations in medicine and psychiatry. Yet...