Today is the day: Code to Joy is on the bookshelves. And in honor of its launch, I thought I’d share with you an excerpt from the foreword that Larry King so graciously provided us: # # # The twentieth century had its share of medical miracles. I should know. When...
On the eve of the release of Code to Joy, I thought I’d share this excerpt. Once upon a time there was a flea who believed that he was king of the world. One day he decided that he wanted to go to the beach for a swim. But the western shore was many miles away, and on...
A few days ago I wrote about “Stefanie’s question,” which drives the new book, Code to Joy, and promised to tell you what became of Stephanie. To do that, we need to take a quick detour back to the age of dinosaurs. In the beginning of the book, we talk about the “fog...
Our new book Code to Joy starts with a question that came from a woman named Stefanie. It was a really, really good question. In fact, Stefanie’s question was so poignant, and my coauthors, Drs. George Pratt and Peter Lambrou, felt it was so important, that it became...
I used to have this problem. It’s going to sound crazy, but it’s true. I had road direction anxiety. Not road rage — more like road haze. Here’s how this worked: whenever I had to drive somewhere I hadn’t been to before, I would get so anxious I would completely...
