Here is a little joke that will start your day with a chuckle:  Two elderly women (Mildred and Harriet) were out for a drive. As they were cruising along, they came to an intersection. The light was red, but Mildred just went on through. Harriet thought to herself, "I could have sworn we just went through a red light." A few minutes later they came to another red light and again Mildred drove right...

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), currently 280 million people worldwide suffer from depression.  Here in the US, about one out of five of us has reported symptoms of depression, and those numbers are not going down, my friend.    The causes and contributing factors behind depression can run the gamut, and include the death of a loved one, job loss, divorce, trauma, being the victim of a crime, nutrient deficiencies or a severe...

  As I walked by the pharmacy counter in my local grocery store recently, I noticed that the line to pick up prescriptions was longer than any of the food check-out lines.  That should tell you something.  Now, certainly medications are needed at times, but when it gets to the point where most of us are drugged every single day, many times taking multiple medications, something is seriously wrong.  And a big force behind this...

  June is National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month, and that brings back a painful story from my past.  You may recall me mentioning in my writings that my Dad died of a heart attack at age 58 when I was 15.  But in addition to his poor cardiovascular health, he was also an alcoholic.    I didn’t know what was going on with him—I was just angry and resentful because I couldn’t have...

  Today we celebrate Veteran’s Day, and while it may be easy to merely see it as a day off for some people, its meaning is much deeper than that.    Were it not for the incredibly brave and selfless men and women who were willing to fight and sacrifice their lives for our freedoms, our lives would likely look very different today.  And even if these courageous service men and women were fortunate enough to...

  This question popped into my head as I was driving north on I-95 the other day and witnessed at least five instances of road rage or extremely aggressive driving.  I swear in one case it looked like a car was trying to run another one off the road! Of course acts of aggression and violence are not limited to people driving on highways.  Practically every day there are reports of another shooting, mass shooting,...