What causes us— normally restrained, responsible people with jobs and families—to lose our minds, whoop and holler, jump up and down, pump our fists in the air, and shout “YES!” as we high five each other? It’s March Madness, of course, the NCAA Division I basketball tournament which results in the national champion. And if …
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Daylight saving time (DST) — how’s that working for you? Apparently it’s not so good for many of us. According to a study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, DST may not be the best thing for our health, since it comes as such a jolt to our cardiovascular systems. Have you been dragging …
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“Frightening beyond belief. I have no words.” —Resident of Sendai, Japan, victim of the tsunami Most of us who saw the telecasts of the tsunami’s destruction in Japan could understand that man’s reaction to the horror of the cataclysmic event. Your jaw drops. Your eyes widen. You have no words. The devastation in Japan was …
It’s a line from the Eagles 1975 classic hit, Tequila Sunrise: “The days go by.” And they do. Whether you like it or not, whether you waiting for (or enduring) a tequila sunrise on a beach in Acapulco, or working in a coal mine in eastern Kentucky, or trading stocks on Wall Street, or writing …
“They tried to make me go to rehab but I said ‘no, no, no’” —Amy Winehoue, Rehab (2007) She sat in my office, a mother worn out from caring, emotionally drained, sharing her pain of a son who had been in and out, in and out of drug rehab. Now he had left rehab again. …