Playing Scared (32 page)
Authors: Sara Solovitch
stimulant medications,
(1)
stop exercises,
(1)
Strassmayer, Karolina,
(1)
Streisand, Barbra,
(1)
Sullivan, Ira,
(1)
“Summertime” (Shearing),
(1)
supersoldiers,
(1)
survivor guilt,
(1)
Suzuki, Shinichi,
(1)
Sweet, Pete,
(1)
swimming,
(1)
Syma (author’s sister),
(1)
synesthesia of sounds,
(1)
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra,
(1)
,
(2)
Székely, Zoltán,
(1)
A Tale of Two Cities
(Dickens),
(1)
talmid haham
,
(1)
target panic,
(1)
Taubman Approach,
(1)
Taylor, Billy,
(1)
thalamus,
(1)
third-person reflection,
(1)
Thomas, Michael Tilson,
(1)
Thompson, Ron,
(1)
thoracic outlet syndrome,
(1)
Thorndike, Sybil,
(1)
Tibetan Buddhists,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
,
(4)
tightrope vs. slack rope,
(1)
Toastmasters,
(1)
tolerances, design,
(1)
traqueuse
,
(1)
Twain, Mark,
(1)
Tyner, McCoy,
(1)
ultra-Orthodox Judaism,
(1)
United States Military Academy,
(1)
,
(2)
University of California at Berkeley,
(1)
University of Nebraska,
(1)
,
(2)
unresolved intergenerational loss,
(1)
U.S. Department of Defense,
(1)
U.S. Olympic Diving Team,
(1)
,
(2)
U.S. Women’s Bobsled National Team,
(1)
USA Track and Field Team,
(1)
vagina and stage fright,
(1)
valerian,
(1)
Vamos, Roland and Almita,
(1)
van der Linde, Polly,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
Vermont
Landis’s father’s accident in,
(1)
piano camp in,
(1)
Ron Thompson’s farmhouse in,
(1)
,
(2)
Verrilli, Donald,
(1)
virtual reality therapy,
(1)
visual cortex of brain,
(1)
Wagner, Richard,
(1)
Warren, Rick,
(1)
WDR Big Band,
(1)
West Virginia University,
(1)
Wharton, Edith,
(1)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
(1)
Wilson, Brian,
(1)
WKCR-FM, Columbia College,
(1)
Wolfenden, Mrs. (piano teacher),
(1)
World Anti-Doping Code,
(1)
World Championships in Berlin (2009),
(1)
Xanax,
(1)
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
,
(1)
Zeitlin, Denny,
(1)
Zimmer, Sandra,
(1)
Sara Solovitch is a former reporter for the
Philadelphia Inquirer
whose articles have appeared in
Esquire, Wired
, the
Los Angeles Times
, and
Politico
. She has been a health columnist for the
San Jose Mercury News
and worked as a medical writer at Stanford University. She also has taught writing and journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, where she was a lecturer for five years, teaching the art of profile writing to graduate students. Solovitch has played classical piano since she was seven and attended Eastman School of Music’s preparatory department during her last two years of high school. A graduate of Barnard College, where she majored in English literature, she is the mother of three sons, two of whom are professional musicians. This is her first book. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband, Richard Scheinin.
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First published 2015
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© Sara Solovitch 2015
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