Can you believe we are almost twenty years from Y2K? The computers were all going to come to a screeching halt because the calendar only rolled to 1/31/1999; planes were going to fall out of the sky and life as we knew it was in jeopardy. Well, none of that happened and a lot of…

Did you know that one in four deaths worldwide are due to heart disease? More people die of heart disease than of all forms of cancer combined. Approximately 735,000 people in America have heart attacks every year of which about 210,000 are repeat events. A heart attack is different from cardiac arrest. A heart attack…

I came across this video with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (the picture, obviously, is not of them because of copyright issues), who have been friends for decades. Besides the comic element they both bring to the discussion, they make some very good points about the importance of women having a strong network of female friends.…

I read a lot of inspirational literature from various people considered “new age” thinkers. I think that’s code for “woo woo” or “fluff”. I don’t care because it makes me look at things from a more positive perspective and has changed my view of my life and my world.  One of my favorite sources of…

We are being bombarded with advertisements from the fast food restaurants who now offer plant-based burgers in place of burgers made from a beef-like substance. But are they really better for you than the real thing? That is, if you think what you get from the fast food places the real thing. I would argue…

As anyone who is not in a coma knows, this is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you saw my post yesterday, you know of my warning about supporting the ‘pink ribbon campaign’, so I won’t go down that path again..    One of the important issues that does not get enough attention is prevention and…

The ‘pinking’ of America. That’s what we do in the month of October. We turn everything pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone is in on the act, including the NFL. Turn on your TV any Sunday in October and you’ll see pink socks, pink shoes, pink armbands, pink on their helmets…anything they can put…

Here’s some good news for anyone who likes to take an afternoon nap. It seems that emerging science suggests that taking a mid-day snooze is actually good for us. Prior to the industrial age and the invention of the light bulb, people usually followed the sun for their sleep patterns. When the sun went down,…