Cathren is a community collaborative artist who has been working with the Community Libraries of Providence and other non-profits since 2012, developing arts and literacy programs and creating public art installations. She has been an artist in residence at Hattie Ide Chaffee Home since 2023, implementing visual arts and health programs with seniors and dementia patients. Website: ArtHouseRI.com
Dear C and Dr. B: I recently met the most amazing woman. She intrigues me in every way – she’s smart, funny and completely captivating. When we start talking, our conversations seem to spark all kinds of connections. The problem is that I’m a 44-year-old man, who’s been married for 21 years. I’ve got four […]
Dear C and Dr. B: I’ve just been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder that I’m going to have forever – IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease). Although I supposedly can keep it under control, I have to deal with a lot of discomfort, pain and a need to never be far from a bathroom. I need to figure […]
Summer is here and it’s time for fun. The last thing you want to do is put yourself on the sidelines by getting injured early in the season. Dr. Michael Zola, a chiropractic physician on the East Side of Providence who has been in practice over 30 years, has some tips on how to stay […]
Dear C and Dr. B: In just a few short months my teenage daughter Sabrina will be moving away to college. I am worried. They didn’t teach script at her high school, so she can’t even sign her name. She can’t write a check, let alone balance a checkbook. She can’t read a clock that […]
Dear C and Dr. B: I am saving up to go to school. My parents wanted me to follow in the family tradition and become a medical doctor, but I decided that I would rather become a nurse practitioner. Their approach to health is much closer to my own, and the research I did shows […]
Dear C and Dr. B: I know now that trust is a really important thing, maybe THE most important thing. But I only learned that after losing the trust of everyone I know. I cheated on my wife and what’s worse, the person I slept with was the wife of a member of our formerly close-knit social […]
Dear Dr. B and C, I work in customer service and dealing with customers is difficult and exhausting. People are always in a rush and have no patience. Talk about rude! And none of them listen. I swear, I can give someone the same information forty times and then they turn around and ask the same question […]
Dear C and Dr. B: My friend Kevin says that he is “an agnostic.” I can’t explain exactly why that pisses me off so much, but it does. I think that everybody is basically entitled to believe whatever they want to believe, but Kevin’s attitude is like: “God hasn’t been proven to my satisfaction. Someone needs to prove it […]
Dear C and Dr. B: Back in the day, my friend Cynthia was a talented designer at a big ad agency where she won awards and was respected by her peers. Everything fell apart when she found out her husband was cheating with someone at the firm. She went through a painful breakup, full of […]
Dear C and Dr. B: Liam and I have been going out for about a year. We’re both people who have good jobs – as far as recreational habits, we are both very moderate social drinkers. Every once in a while, Liam would have a joint and we might share it after the car was parked […]