As we head into the last days of the holiday season, some people are feeling just a wee bit overloaded. Here’s a Doc Gurley questionnaire to help you decide if you too might be fraying at the edges:
Check which of these situations applies to you:
1) When another pedestrian wanders into the crosswalk just as the [...]

 

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We launch the first Doc Gurley audiocast with a Homeless Gift Guide broadcast on UK’s Global Local Radio at http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/index.php?id=78
In this broadcast, we go on a fieldtrip and gift a homeless person “live”–just to show how safe and easy the whole process can be. Listen for yourself and see how much joy you can [...]

This week’s Sunday San Francisco Chronicle includes an article by Doc Gurley about how to give a gift to a homeless person. Heavily edited due to space constraints (despite the impressive amount of space they gave me–when I get inspired, I go for it, but there’s only so much space on a Sunday paper page…), [...]

We love Dave Barry here at Doc Gurley (in a purely platonic, stalker fan, restraining-order kind of way). With teenager squeals and bouncing and hand-flapping, we share an actual response from His Daveness to Doc Gurley (O.M.G.) to a question I submitted to the Dave Barry For President Q&A Forum. Check it out while I [...]

1) Giving thanks improves your mood and your quality of life, both of which have a tremendous positive impact on your health. Seems like a cheat, doesn’t it, but who am I to question? We can give thanks for gratitude.
2) You can bulk up in your geriatric years. It’s never too late to start. No [...]

There are many studies showing the health benefits of a more positive outlook. Other studies show how having that kind of outlook is actually a habit that can be cultivated. But, if your life feels like an endless series of stressful tasks, how do you start? Here’s a moment I had:

I met God last week, and boy, did he have a bad case of foot fungus. I work in a clinic for the homeless, and we see a lot of mental health problems—besides God (who was a bit pudgy), I’ve met a man who believed he was God’s father (although he seemed a tad young [...]