As hard as it may be for me to believe this, there are actually people who don’t watch the Super Bowl. I mean, even if you don’t care for football, you know they have really awesome ads, right? Well, if even the crazy ads can’t get you to tune in, there is some quality entertainment [...]

It’s inevitable – the rise and fall of prices. That’s just how the economy works. It’s almost as inevitable as death and taxes. One of my patients told me that when he bought his house in 1967 he paid $19,000 for it. Could you imagine?! I remember being young and the price of a first [...]

Get Activated with Code Purple Did you know that in Africa, a child dies every 45 seconds from Malaria? There are more than 225 million cases of Malaria reported each year worldwide.  This life-threatening disease is caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through bites of infected mosquitoes, but there is a light at the [...]

How much do you know about Infant Meningitis? Did you know it is a leading cause of preventable infant death in the US? At least 50-60% of these cases are vaccine preventable. One out of 16 infants who contract the disease will not survive, and of those that survive, many will live the rest of [...]

I realize this post is a day late, but sometimes my inspiration comes to me after two glasses of wine at odd times when I’ve already done a post today – so I’m scheduling this one to hit on Tuesday. A day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I grew up in an upper middle [...]

I got a little bit spoiled over the holidays. I worked four 4 day weeks in a row. Well, three 4 day weeks and one two day week because I was ill. So… I got a little spoiled. This past week was actually my first five day week in a month. And I’m tired! Fortunately, [...]