Dr Tom Ferraro
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…