Every so often, I get to make real-life contact with a reader of this column. Larry Valmore is one of those people. He wrote to me this summer after reading a treatise of mine from April, in which I ...

Have you ever given much thought to the subconscious mind? Until recently, I hadn’t. I thought it was a Freudian concept, or something nebulous to do with dreams. Now, my wellness-skewed algorithm ...