Beginning the New Year always seems to default to an admonition to “improve yourself”. Everything you didn’t get right the year before becomes new resolutions that eventually lead to frustration because you fall short again by the end of the month. How about a new approach? Let’s look into making the old YOU new again. [...]
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Category Archives: Life Experiences
9/12-The Morning After
Yesterday was a day of remembrance—for many the worst day of their lives. The pain of a nation was embraced as we took a mental journey back to that day on 9/11 while we watched television and read stories of others’ losses. Ten years later, we still think of it as the most terrible day [...]
What Johnny Depp Taught Me About Love
“What is it that Johnny Depp has that makes people crazy about him?” said Charlie Rose, broadcast journalist. Director of the movie, The Tourist, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made a quick mental assessment and answered, “I think it is that he makes it so easy for us to love him. We appreciate him for that. [...]
Beyond the Shock-NBCF’s New Online Educational Resource
“Janelle, you have breast cancer. Would you like to have chemotherapy, radiation, or a mastectomy?” Every word beyond, “You have breast cancer,” was a blur. It was 1980 when little information was given to patients about such medical conditions. While I was in the hospital having a hysterectomy, my doctor performed a biopsy on a [...]