Dr Tom Ferraro

Dr Tom Ferraro

326 Articles

Our Town: Meet Mr. Style, Marty Hackel

We live in an age of multiple sexual and gender identities, which now include unisex bathrooms in some high schools.

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Our Town: A genius who burned too bright

One never knows when you’ll learn something new. This weekend I was held in great expectation as I anticipated the

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Our Town: Why is perfect love so elusive?

There are an astounding number of ways humans look for love and approval. Let’s start with the usual method, which

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Our Town: In search of the lost sock

We must endure many losses in life, some trivial and some grave. Here is my top ten loss list in

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Our Town: The biggest rival is in your head

Rivalries bring out the very best in us. Whether it’s as simple as sibling rivalry, as compelling as Roger Maris

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Our Town: Little joy, big joy or no joy at all

How does one go about finding joy in life? Joy and happiness are the Holy Grails of life that every

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Our Town: Family talent may be buried in the past

Birth order counts. That’s what Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler told us. Firstborns are more depressed, middle children competitive and the

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Our Town: Memories of a summer gone by

As summer closes, the night chill and melancholy are in the air. We move toward autumn with some reluctance as

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Our Town: Giftedness a blessing or a curse?

At the beginning of the 1977 George Lucas film “Star Wars: A New Hope,” the young hero Luke Skywalker finds

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Our Town: Cipollini’s culinary magic right here in Nassau

Success has nothing to do with luck. Popularity is not an accident. When crowds gather and the throngs come running,

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Our Town: The road not taken

The road not taken “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by And

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Our Town: There’s a cure for the yips

When Simone Biles, the world’s greatest gymnast, had the yips in vaulting, many athletes could sympathize. The yips are a

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Our Town: The mental anguish of the athlete

Mental anguish and the athlete (Photo with caption “Simone Biles, an Olympic athlete under duress.”) On occasion the spectator is

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Our Town: The sexy olympian: the ultimate oxymoron

It is a joy to see that all those intrepid Olympians have survived Covid and its deadly impact on the

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Our Town: The facts about focus

Anyone with ambition wil need focus. When a 50-year-old Phil Mickelson won this year’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, the

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