At 89, he’s heard six decades of L.A.’s secrets and is ready to talk about what he’s learned
Dr. Arnold Gilberg’s sunny consultation room sits just off Wilshire Boulevard. Natural light spills onto a wooden floor, his houndstooth-upholstered armchair, the low-slung couch draped with a colorful Guatemalan blanket. The Beverly Hills psychiatrist has been seeing patients for more than 60 years, both in rooms like this and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he
9 Resolutions That Can Help You Age Better This Year
If you’re aging—and every single one of us is—adopting even small new habits can have a profound impact on your current and future well-being. That’s true whether you’re 25 or 75. “Thinking about your trajectory of aging and how you can influence it, starting as early as possible, can make a difference in your year
‘The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age’ Is a Survival Guide With Swagger
There’s no generation like Generation X. We Gen-Xers were the “latchkey kids” (a label that didn’t apply to me, thank God). We bridged the gap between pre-internet life and a way-too-connected world. We’re the only generation that could program a VCR. We fall between the Boomers and the Millennials, and other generations neglect us. Nevertheless,
Author Emmanuel Laroche On Why & How Traveling Can Help Us Become Better Human Beings
In an article on Medium, author Emmanuel Laroche writes: Travel leads to personal growth because it interrupts our assumptions. When you’re in a new environment, nothing operates on autopilot; you must observe, adapt, and engage with the world more intentionally. That shift in awareness often reveals strengths, blind spots, or possibilities you didn’t notice at
Work and the Meaning of Life
Your identity is tied to what you do. I bet I have it now. So argues David Bahnsen in his book Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. Bahnsen is the founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm. He’s also the author of several books,
A Lifelong Search for Answers
Physicians often carry a story that informs their purpose, and for Eugene Lipov, M.D., a physician and researcher, that story began long before he ever stepped into an operating room. For him, the distance between his early memories and his work today remains wide, yet every part of that path seems to have pointed him
‘Choosing to Be Chosen’: The path from ‘bleak atheism’ to Orthodox Judaism
In a review for The Jerusalem Post, Abigail Klein Leichman writes: The way Kylie Ora Lobell writes about her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland, in her book Choosing to Be Chosen: From Being an Atheist Non-Jew to Becoming an Orthodox Jew could initially describe the childhood of countless Americans. There was sadness and bewilderment over her
Lisa De Pasquale: Middle Age in the Golden Age — How to Make Your Life Great Again
In a piece for Breitbart, Lisa De Pasquale, author of The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age: The Pursuit of Health, Success, and Human Fulfillment, writes: I weighed nearly 300 pounds when I introduced businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump at his first political speech at CPAC 2011. (You’re welcome, America!) I sat on
A Return to Muscular Christianity
In his new book, The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War Between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom, Raymond Ibrahim sets the record straight about Christian military orders led by great captains of faith and ferocity that understood the need for what he calls “muscular Christianity.” The title of the book alludes
A Catholic Take | Was Malachi Martin the REAL Indiana Jones?
We welcome back Fr. John Brancich, FSSP, to talk Advent and the Ask A Priest book club. Then we’re joined again by Rob Marro, Jr. to discuss his new book on Malachi Martin. Click here to watch the video on YouTube. Click here to learn more about the book.