SILENCE AND CREATIVITY. CAN YOU FEEL IT? by Art Smukler, author & Psychiatrist
When was the last time you got in your car and drove in silence? No radio. No Pandora. No talk show. No streaming. A while right? It’s become a built in habit. Put the car in gear and click on the...
View ArticleWHAT DID YOU FAIL AT THIS WEEK? A REPRISE, by Art Smukler, author & Psychiatrist
I wish someone had asked me that when I was a child, and I had asked the same question to my children. This is now third-hand, but who cares? Good information should be passed along. Fareed Zakaria,...
View ArticleIT’S GETTING A LITTLE COMPLICATED IN SMUKLER’S BOOKSTORE, by Art Smukler, MD,...
Most days, Smukler’s bookstore is a quiet, peaceful, contemplative place to be. Then, just yesterday, THE REAL STORY, started complaining. “I’m lonely,” he whined. “What?” “Are you deaf? I’m lonely....
View ArticleWISDOM? by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
A wise man once said, consider the opinions of others, but in the end, make up your own mind. That wise man, and I use the term somewhat cringingly, was me. There was no particular reason why I waxed...
View ArticleTHOUGHTS ON TIME TRAVEL, by Art Smukler MD, author & psychiatrist
My trip back in time started this morning, with an innocent glance at the sports news. The Big Ten just closed a blockbuster, seven year, seven billion dollar TV deal, to start in 2023. That’s a lot of...
View ArticleTHOUGHTS ON TIME TRAVEL 2, by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
By the time I reached my friend Rachel’s apartment in Greenwich Village, it was 11 PM. I found a place to park on the street, hauled my suitcase up a flight of concrete steps, and pushed the buzzer for...
View ArticleANOTHER 5 STAR REVIEW ! Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
From Readers’ Favorite 5 Stars – Congratulations on your 5-star review! Reviewed by Luwi Nyakansaila for Readers’ Favorite What happens when an ordinary medical student discovers he is trailed by...
View ArticleHANG ON FELLOW TIME-TRAVELERS, WE’RE GOING BACK TO 1960, by Art Smukler, MD,...
It was a simpler time. No internet. No cell phones. No electric cars. Computers, with less gigs than your cell phone, were the size of a Mac Truck. Gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. And the ONLY way to...
View ArticleA FAVORITE EXCERPT, Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
The REAL STORY is a mystery.Lara, my lab partner, who’s into all this Freudian hocus pocus, thinks the answer is locked up somewhere deep in my unconscious. If our lives depend on me spelunking into my...
View ArticleTRAVEL WITH ME TO JULY 1, 1969, by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
I sat in the Airstream, sipped my morning coffee, and savored a fresh blueberry muffin. Are wormholes real? Can we actually slip through one and go back in time? What if we could? Would I really want...
View ArticleA FUNNY STORY ABOUT JOE PATERNO, by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Once upon a time, years before Joe-Paterno’s-Penn-State-Camelot came crashing down in the Sandusky scandal (over 10 years ago), I convinced my wife, who to this day still thinks that football is a...
View ArticleLIFE IS IMPROVISATION, by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Last night, I saw Herbie Hancock at the Hollywood Bowl. Wow. Still terrific at 82 years old. Warm. Inclusive. A terrific jazz pianist. He started the evening by introducing his 2 year-old grandson, who...
View ArticleNOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROTECTING DEMOCRACY, by Art Smukler, MD,...
I’ve been busy putting the final touches on, NINE NORTH, my latest novel, due to come out next week, but all I can think about is Elon Musk’s latest tweet advocating that all his followers should vote...
View ArticleNINE NORTH, by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Jake Bennett throws away his Ivy League education and the love of his life to be a writer. Three failed novels later, a crappy apartment, a battered car, and waiting tables to survive, he sees his dead...
View ArticleNINE NORTH, 5 STAR Review, Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Nine North By Art Smukler November 14, 2022 Reviewed by Angie Mangino, freelance journalist & book reviewer Rating: 5 stars “Two years and one day after Nelson Bennett died, he rose from the dead.”...
View ArticlePAGE 1 OR DONE! by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
CHAPTER 1 TRUTH OR FANTASY? Two years and one day after Nelson Bennett died, he rose from the dead. Amidst the hundreds of people strolling down the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California...
View ArticleBIG SALE ON MY BOOKS! Art Smukler MD, author & psychiatrist
My Books, THE REAL STORY, a mystery and NINE NORTH are part of the Smashwords 2022 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book at https://smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ and follow @smashwords for...
View ArticleWHO’S REALLY CRAZY? by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Act into law. $365,000,000 was authorized to start community based mental health treatment programs, so that the mentally ill could...
View ArticleWHAT CAN 44 BILLION BUY? by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist
Well, it can of course buy Twitter. Just ask Elon Musk. Is it fun, Mr. Musk, having millions of people furious that you have so much control? I don’t think that it really bothers him. Perhaps being the...
View ArticleWHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCIENCE AND LOGIC? by Art Smukler, MD, author &...
Ask Trump, DeSantis, Robt. Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Green, Kari Lake, Giuliani and one of my personal favorites “the pillow guy”. I’d call them sleezeballs (I respectfully use the term in a regression...
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