HILLY: Sorry I’m late.
DR. SELMAN: Great coat!
HILLY: Thanks!
GEORGE: So, Dr. Selman, you think I might be bipolar. But I gotta tell you, having tried Wellbutrin—it was only for a week, but I know the effect. Today I was in a funk, couldn’t motivate, paralyzed in front of the computer. And I had Read More
A few months back, Stephanie Wheeler’s chemistry teacher at the Woodlands Christian Academy in the Woodlands, Tex., assigned her 11th-grade class a peculiar science experiment.
The teacher, Ms. Fisler, who also happens to be a “real healthy eater,” according to Stephanie, had heard about a contest sponsored by Vitaminwater, the purportedly mineral-infused soft drink that Read More
DR. SELMAN: It’s been a long time.
GEORGE: I don’t know where to begin.
HILLY: George has been really sick. First he thought it was pink eye, then herpes, and then he thought it was chlamydia. Ha ha ha!
GEORGE: I went out really late, and the next night my left eye was sort of Read More
Our ninth couples-therapy session got off to a bad start. I had been out the night before; two six-packs and two hours of sleep ….
DR. SELMAN: Who would like to begin?
HILLY: George didn’t read the article to me before it went into the paper this week!
GEORGE: I’m in Read More
George and Hilly
Halfway through our seventh session of couples therapy, we’d already stumbled onto the topic of marriage …. But then we got back to talking about daily stuff.
GEORGE: May I ask you something? This is going to make me sound like a dick. Remember how I said I don’t want e-mails Read More
It was our fifth couples-therapy session ….
HILLY: So George got back from his vacation, and he was really depressed and irritable. And last weekend, we had a little altercation—remember?
GEORGE: About what?
HILLY: When I cried?
GEORGE: About what?
HILLY: We were having a great time Saturday. I rented a bicycle—he already has Read More
