Tag: Turns

When Losing Turns Out to Be a Gift

I’m not going to lie. When my son revealed late last summer that he intended to join his middle school’s track team in sixth grade — his foray into extracurricular athletics, the news sparked an intoxicating mixture of glee, anticipation, and nostalgia deep within my gut. Cou...

When realism turns radical

Imagine yourself in a gallery filled with mirrors. On one side, the reflections are sharp and pristine, appearing from a distance as precise and immaculate. There stands Richard Estes, mastering every angle of that wall with pinpoint accuracy. But what would happen if those mirrors shattered? On ...

How Money Turns People Into Liars

My mistrust of people trying to sell me things has only grown from that point. I had a similar eye-opening experience as a young adult reading a news story about medical costs. An expert was quoted as saying that if insurance were to pay surgeons more for doing Surgery A than Surgery B, it was a ...

When Depression Turns Deadly: Society, Suicide and Transgender People

Like other healthcare professionals, I’m trained to think about the worst-case scenario: What’s the most dangerous thing that could be going on with this person? We also have to think about who’s in front of us, and how likely a given problem is for people like them. The top concer...

Neptune Turns Direct: Reconnect With Your Fantasies (December 2023)

Neptune has been in retrograde since June 30th, 2023 and will finally turn direct on December 6th. In the week leading prior to the 6th, we will already begin to feel the effects of Neptune turning direct, in which this is called “the shadow period.” Neptune is a d...