Tag Archives: Health

Don't Crack Up, Go On Vacation

I just read that 460 million vacation days went unused last year by American workers … no wonder we have so many mental problems in our country! To all those people so worried about missing work I say this: “Be responsible, go on vacation!”

Service Tall Tales and the Real Thing

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Do you know some who when you tell them about a service you received always has a better suggestion? It’s one thing for a person to give advice once in a while or even repeatedly when it is relevant or even better TRUE. It’s entirely another when in every conversation they claim to [...]

What Does the Topic of Health Make you Feel Like?

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This morning on my way to teach summer school for day one, I heard news on the radio that Tim Russert had suffered a thrombosis and succumbed to a massive heart attack. The news shocked me, he was only 58. The radio host explained he had an enlarged heart which usually means high [...]

Overprescribing Mental Health Pills

More people were using Prozac in the 1990’s than aspirin. It was the pop drug of choice for millions of mental health caregivers. Was all that prescribing warranted? We found that Prozac caused suicides and a set of other mental health impairments that were just as bad as depression if not worse. [...]

Push it to the Sidebar of Life

One of my favorite songs is the Beatles: “Let it Be.”
When I find myself in times of trouble …
Speaking words of wisdom let it be.
We live in the most “multi-tasking” and multi-demanding society in history. The human mind wasn’t created and hasn’t evolved to handle all the stress and demands in a given day. [...]

Interview with Michelle of "It Might be Love"

You know it isn’t often I run across a blog and instantly become a fan. That’s how it was for me a few months ago when I found It Might be Love. Of course I am a hopeless romantic so this blog appealed to me right away. It’s an unobtrusive, unassuming blog [...]

Squinting to See the Rainbow: Randy Pausch

Update: I wrote the post below 8 months ago. Since then, Randy has been on Oprah and the cover of every magazine imaginable. You can read how he is doing on his journey here. This guy is an incredible example of a possibility thinker. I try to emulate him. As [...]

Me on Video Telling an Embarrassing Story

I asked my lovely wife Sarah to video me telling this story. I wanted to get you thinking about times you may have wanted to “crawl into your shell.” This post is really to raise awareness about a site I ran across that deals with shellfish education. As bad as that [...]

My First Culinary Guest Blog: Just Published

The blogger from In Good Taste asked me to write a guest blog for his clean and impressive Wordpress.com blog. It was no stretch with Sarah’s help. She does a lot of recipe/nutrition type stuff on her blog. Anyway, together we made a pretty good presentation (if I do say so myself). [...]

The Memory of Running

Walking through CVS today I saw this book on display and had to buy it. The title absolutely flowed through me. I have no clue what the plot is about but ever since I picked it up I have wanted to post a memory of my running here on my blog: I have [...]

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