Have you heard the term “societal exhaustion”? It could be you’ve never heard the exact term “societal exhaustion”, but if you’re like the average person then your imagination will allow you to envision a day in your own life. You get up, you check your cell phone for messages, you glance at the television to...Read More

Anticipating a surgical procedure… It is probably safe to say that no one looks forward to having a surgical procedure. Of course, depending on one’s medical condition, a successful surgery is what a patient anticipates and desires. Non-emergency surgeries (elective) are preceded with considerable pre-op examinations, like EKGs, lung x-rays, blood work, maybe an MRI...Read More

How will you honor our Veterans this year? Of late when Memorial Day or Veterans Day holidays approach we notice people will turn to the social media platforms to thank their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and grandparents who served. Maybe they change their own profile photo to one of their father or mother. You will...Read More

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Trauma occurs when a life event, usually one that threatens or causes great physical or emotional harm, overwhelms the brain’s inbuilt chemical and physiological defenses to stress. Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that sometimes develops after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical...Read More

Philoctetes, wounded, is abandoned by the Greek expedition en route to Troy, detail of an Attic red-figure stamnos, ca. 460 BC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What can we learn from a Greek tragedy? Do you have vivid memories of a high school class where the syllabus included Greek tragedies? Maybe it was an English honors class...Read More

Do you remember the first time you used a camera? The other day we were having lunch with an associate and suddenly she said, “Wait, let’s take a photo…oh, OK, a selfie!” We obliged and had a good laugh at our many attempts to make ourselves look young and gorgeous! Afterwards we got to talking...Read More

English: Ellis Island, seen from Liberty Island (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ellis Island is in recovery from Hurricane Sandy Have you ever visited Ellis Island? If not, put it on your “bucket list.” Ellis Island is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument located in Upper New York Bay, the original island belongs to New...Read More

Peace Agreements don’t always settle The War Within This month we observed Memorial Day and while each conflict conducted with our active military personnel and veterans usually concludes with a peace agreement often the written accords do not settle  The War Within. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers experts’ observations regarding the occurrence of...Read More

Snowpack accumulation at 14,255 ft. on Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Stranded on the ledge… ‘Officials say [Samuel]Frappier was “in an extremely precarious location on the east face of Longs Peak at roughly 13,000 feet.” He was not injured but said he could not go up or down. Frappier,...Read More

Memorial Day ~ 2014 This year Memorial Day is May 26th. For the past couple of years we have published a post just before the Memorial Day weekend sharing some historical and current information. Last year we focused  on those who served and perished during and as a result of their service in World War...Read More