All Posts


Be a boss

Joey advises a reader to set boundaries with her hookup-seeking friend.


Corporate cartel logic

Sacramento and Amador among 31 California counties claiming that Big Pharma companies perpetrated an organized criminal conspiracy For Chris, it started with a trip to…




Bad trip

Joey advises a reader on how to deal with her boyfriend’s pressure to microdose LSD.





Beauty and terror

How can this struggling writer get past childhood trauma and finally create stories with abandon?


A healing voice

Psychologist’s refugee story remains a motivating force behind her trauma work in Sacramento When Dr. Carolee Tran recalls her last glimpse of Vietnam as a child, the most…