Psychiatrist Patricia Lester is the director of UCLA’s Project FOCUS, which offers resiliency training for military families, as well as the Nathanson Family Resilience Center. Before participating in a panel on how war affects families, she explained why she likes working with children, and when she’s at her most resilient in the Zócalo green room.
David Hovda is the director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. Before participating in a panel on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are changing medicine, he talked …
Plastic surgeon and hand surgeon Kodi Azari also co-directs UCLA’s Operation Mend, which treats wounded veterans with facial and other injuries requiring reconstruction. Before participating in a panel on how …
The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the …
On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam. Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen …
Brooklyn earns a special place in the Jackie Robinson story. The borough’s robust mix of striving immigrants and progressive politics made for congenial fans when Jackie Robinson brought down the …
Patricia Leigh Brown has been writing for The New York Times since 1986, first in New York and now as a contributor from San Francisco. In addition, she contributes to …
No house on earth means more to me than my paternal grandparents’ small blue home near the bottom of a windswept hill in the Bay Area city of San Mateo.
I’ve …
Since at least the time of Aristotle’s Politics, families have been considered the building block of society. Strong families produce the stability—and reproduce the future citizens—needed for society to flourish. …
Long before psychologists started linking gratitude to improved mood and health, we’ve known that being thankful was good for us. Perhaps science will even find that feasting to the point …
