It's October again and the campaigns with the pink ribbons, walks for the cure and being asked for contributions at the grocery store checkout line begins. Going against the grain of the mainstream, I am going to illuminate your choice: are you focusing on what you...
Fire! When we see firemen running towards a fire and other firemen on the scene quenching the fire, do we blame the firemen for the fire? We recognize that with all these firemen working, there must be something wrong. But do we think that the firemen are the cause...
I’ll bet we can all recite the first verse of this nursery rhyme: Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water,Jack fell down and broke his crownAnd Jill came tumbling after. Now, we might want to stop here and send Jack and Jill to the ER, but the...
It's summer and it is easy to lose too much of your fluids in the heat. I hope you are taking measures to tank up on highly absorbable water first thing in the morning and frequently throughout the day. However, it sometimes does happen that you are outside too long,...
First, a fable . . . The human body responds to medical treatment much like the traveler in Aesop’s fable “The North Wind and the Sun.” The Wind challenged the Sun to remove the jacket of the traveler walking along the road beneath them. As the Sun hid behind a cloud,...