By Dr. Paula Bloom A few years ago our daughter went to circus camp. She was fascinated by the unicycle but was told that she wasn’t old enough to take the unicycle class. She became determined to learn. For her next birthday, we got her the unicycle she had really been wanting. She s

By Dr. Paula Bloom I know very little about people who live in the Arctic regions. As a child, I remember hearing that Eskimos had many different words for snow. Come to find out that this is a myth.  Apparently, they have just as many words rooted in the word snow as we do in English

By Dr. Paula Bloom As a child, I would sit with my Crayola 64-pack (you know, the one with the built in sharpener) and wonder how they came up with the names of the colors. Take orange for example. There’s a color actually called Orange. And then there’s Red Orange, Sunset Orange, Bit

By Dr. Paula Bloom I’ve been getting a lot of comments about my weight loss lately. It’s a strange thing. On one hand, it feels good to have people notice all my hard work, but on the other hand, it means that they all noticed how heavy I was. This makes me feel a little vulnerable. W

By Dr. Paula Bloom I just got back from a weekend trip to Knoxville to watch a University of Tennessee football game.  We enjoyed going up the Tennessee river on our friends’ boat to Neyland Stadium. There was a chill in the air coupled with bright blue skies and big puffy clouds. It