Today is the 7th day of summer vacation. I have already heard from my kids that they are “bored.” Know what my response was, “Good!” Are you shocked? They were. I have many discussions with my friends about this topic at this time of the year. How do you handle boredom? Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train …
Memorial Day for me growing up was always about the Indianapolis 500 Indy car race. At some point in my civics classes, we learned that Memorial Day was a day set aside for our nation to remember our fallen heroes and express our gratitude to those who have served. But somehow for me, it was …
I knew my blog post on Vaccines was going to possibly be controversial, but I honestly was not prepared for the anger and venom it brought out. I have many friends who do not vaccinate their kids. I’ve heard all their reasons and we’ve discussed the situation calmly, without any bad feelings toward each other. …
I must be a glutton for punishment to post this right after the vaccine post. Oh well. Answering this question is always tricky. It depends is the best answer. There are many factors that can affect what vitamin supplementation one person should take versus another. Generally, a multivitamin will do just fine for most people. …
As anyone who has tried to lose a few pounds will tell you, controlling your carbohydrate intake is a central pillar to your efforts. Along with eating more fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins, drinking water instead of other beverages and getting exercise daily, cutting back on refined sugars in particular will boost weight loss. But, …
Controversy First, let’s examine the controversies. As a doc and a leader in my community, I hear parents all the time on this subject. Parents are concerned about so many shots, their child developing some crazy side effect, or getting too much mercury. Adults are concerned about “toxicity” from the compounds used in vaccines and …
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So, I’ve been nominated for the Sunshine Award by fellow blogger debtfreedecorating. I didn’t know much about the award when she nominated me, so I did some research, of course! The Sunshine Award is a classic pass-along awards, sort of like the southern pass-along plants that I love most in my garden: peonies. Yes, you …
This topic was brought afresh to me Thursday of last week, when much to my consternation, my son got the gastrointestinal virus (aka. “throw up virus”) that has been going around our neighborhood and his school. He is back at school and now my eldest daughter is home sick with it too. Can you say …
As I write this blog I am being allergy tested. How funny that someone else struggles with skin reactions and allergies enough to ask a question about this topic. All my life I have had terrible seasonal environmental allergies, but only recently did I realize that I was also reacting some common skin irritants. So, …
There is a commercial series for an anti-cholesterol medicine that was fairly funny. My kids always laughed at the side-by-side pictures of people who looked like various foods. There was the woman with the crazy red feather hat next to a plate of spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. And then there was the man with the …
