Cathren Housley

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 […]

In 1996, California passed the Compassionate Use Act, legalizing the medical use of marijuana. Since then, 37 other states, including RI, have followed suit; only six states continue to fully criminalize it. Many medical doctors still insist that pot is a dangerous gateway drug with no real medical value, but there is growing evidence which […]

Dear C and Dr. B: My amazing veterinarian of 10 years committed suicide. He was the nicest guy and married with two small children. I just don’t get it.   When I hear of a suicide, it usually seems obvious why the person did it – they were living with a situation that felt hopeless or […]