Playing the Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda Game after an accidental death is as patently unhelpful as playing it after a game of cards. This and more when memory artist Nancy Gershman talks with Nebraska-based stand-up…
Joe tickled by Mom stoically eating his tofurkey. Mom openly guzzling "horrible things" like caffeine-free diet coke in front of her vegan son. Honoring these mischievous moments and more when…
Is denial born of excess optimism? Can visualizing yourself in the improv game, Hitchhiker lead to actual reconciliation? This and more when Tragicomedia's Nancy Gershman talks with Marvin Stottlemire, PhD, JD:…
When an antique mirror "pretty much slices off" your nose, even an actor must stop pretending everything's fine. How to transcend a freak accident by applying the rules of improv: this…
What the bereavement support group dress code should be and why widows often say they've "thrown out the rule book": this and more when Tragicomedia's Nancy Gershman talks to Sandi…
Pedro Pinera (class of 2016) reviews the art-neuroscience themed exhibition, "For The Brides of Ed: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Art Therapy, EMDR and Prescriptive Art),…
When there's a death but no body, is it ok for a 9/11 widow to crack up laughing about the pig-and-palm tree tie her husband wore that day? This and more…
Widows who ask themselves "What would my dead husband do?"; play the widow card and look at funeral photo boards saying, "There won't even be many photographs when it's my…
"Be happy, well-behaved and don’t make trouble for anybody" is a credo that's led to suicide in many a troubled Southern gentlemen - this and more as actor and improv comedian Sam…
How to teach your dead husband's first wife a lesson with your burial plot and epitaph; why morticians should be the only ones doling out locks of hair; and how…
Pranksters commit suicide too; eat/work-out/meditate before an emotional death anniversary; and why public Remembering should not be enforced: all in this week's Tragicomedia with Jay Nog, a stand-up comedian from…
Why special treatment from friends makes the bereaved act out; whether to carry on your dead mom's 5am birthday calls; and how to pull painful stories out of reluctant storytellers:…
