THIS MONTH’S column takes on a bit of a different form. It’s a response to a question that came to me from a group of young adults with whom I was having dinner. We were discussing...
THERE WAS an amusing advertisement on English television recently in which a young mother is preparing a meal for her baby and another for the dog. When her phone rings, she becomes so absorbed in...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: I am a deeply religious woman, like the rest of my family members: my parents and my younger sister. For the last three years I have been dating a wonderful man who really cares...
MY ATTENTION was drawn recently to a very sad story from the United States. It concerns a couple who were found dead in their New York apartment, having committed suicide with helium gas. They left...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: My mother has been reading this magazine for a number of years, and I myself look through it sometimes. I am interested in human psychology, and this is why your columns are the...