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Patients at the rehabilitation center practice social skills by calling each other on the phone and organizing excursions to restaurants and shops. They help one another set daily goals: cook breakfast, buy Mom a birthday card, look for a job. They also learn to do mundane chores: washing clothes in the hospital laundry room and cooking in a tiny employee kitchen. Nothing is easy. Soap goes into the washing machines, but clothes are often forgotten. Because schizophrenics have certain cognitive problems, they have trouble generalizing the principles behind the chores. Thus learning to fry chicken doesn't mean they will...
...first-year at Harvard wasn't my first brushwith emotional trouble. But until then, I'd justput off my anxieties, expecting the future wouldwork things out. When I broke down, my mom steppedin to nurture my confidence about the future. Weboth figured college would be a great place tostart. My high school class numbered about 120. Ihad friends, but few of them really related to myinner core. I thought that at Harvard I would meetpeople who would...
Fully understanding that paradox was shocking.It meant me and my mom were only partly right.Everything wasn't going to be just fine. Somethings would. Some wouldn't. And I was just goingto have to deal...
...have access to a video camera and don't mind the risk of burglary, you might consider bringing it. Film each other on the night of your house formals: Mom and Dad are at home, and someone has top take their place. P>DON'T bring your dog or cat. Harvard doesn't allow pets, so you will have to leave Fido and Fluffy at home. Be strong. Improvise. You could try to content Yourself with the 300,000 too-tame gray squirrels in the Yard...
...happens that Lovett, 34, is a gentle Texan who dedicated his first album to "Mom and Dad." His songs abound in comic irony: I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You, She's No Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...