When was the last time you felt gratitude simply because the sun came up? Rarely do we even think about this simple miracle because it happens…
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Ouch, that sunburn really hurts! Is that an all-too familiar sentence you utter, especially during the summer months? Skin is the largest organ in the human…
Remember Sleeping Beauty? You know it was a fairy tale because she slept completely and undisturbed for a hundred years and only woke up when Prince…
What exactly is a vaccine? Remember that old saying, “Take the hair of the dog that bit you” – that was advice to get rid of…
Is she seriously writing another column about COVID? I’m afraid so. Sad to say that there is no getting around it – it is THE health…
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but here goes – for some people, COVID-19 is here for the long haul. Many are still…
I was so hoping that my column this time would be on a totally different topic – toenail fungus or sunburn, let’s say. But, unfortunately, COVID…
It’s a little risky writing about an illness that is still so much in the forefront of the news because we don’t know how the story…
Perhaps this is an awkward time to talk about colon cancer, right after this holiday season of eating and celebrating. Actually, any time is an awkward…
You probably have never heard as much about measles as you have in the past several months. If you were born after 1968, you didn’t hear…
Is there ever a good time to talk about dying? It’s always an uncomfortable topic, even if you are young and vibrant and in the best…
With any luck and a good map, we are all on the road to retirement. I recently arrived in this special place – 3 months and…
I have recently retired from teaching college students to be registered nurses (RNs) and registered nurses to be nurse practitioners (NPs), but emails keep coming to…
Yoga has been around for 5,000 years. Having started in India with Hindu and Buddhist roots, it became more popular in the United States in the…
There’s a pill for just about everything nowadays. Pills to make you feel happy; pills to calm you down. But, many of these pills can be…