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Issues


  • No Time Off For Good Behavior

    Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! When you commit a crime and get sentenced, unless the crime was brutal you can often get a reduced sentence for good behavior.  When someone becomes ill with a chronic health challenge and you’re the caregiver there’s no time off for good behavior.  This week was two years since my father-in-law…

  • What’s In Your Wallet?

    Capital One credit card asks the question, “What’s in your wallet?” hoping you’re carrying their credit card.  If you take the brand name out of the equation it asks “what type of reserve do you have when you want to make a purchase?”  We hear about the Federal Reserve, oil reserves, grain reserves, etc. and…

  • At The Movies…

    Welcome to Art and Healing Wednesday!! I remember seeing a book years ago called, “The Motion Picture Prescription: Watch this movie and call me in the morning”.  A great title and the book offers movie suggestions that relate to the most common life problems.  It’s amazing that in a two-hour period the writers, producers, and…

  • Counting, Measuring, and Weighing…Are We Counting the Wrong Things?

    We live  in a number obsessed culture.  We worry about age, height, weight, shoe size, dress size, calories, fat, carbohydrates, blood pressure, glucose levels, test scores, electoral votes, nuclear arsenals, Richter scales, and the list goes on and on.  If things didn’t have a number attached to it I don’t know what we’d do except figure…