Your Negative Attitude is Positively Deadly
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The National Health Interview Survey has been monitoring Americans since the late 1950’s. By tracking healthcare statistics, healthcare access and attitudes about healthcare, it provides the most comprehensive snapshot available of our nation’s wellbeing. Turns out that, according to the most recent survey, the majority of us are feeling pretty good about our health. 82 percent […]
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Living and Dying Alone
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“The weather was warm and he was buried, with indecent haste, in one of the public cemeteries…on the Sunday following…an intense excitement was created by the declaration of a peasant that, while sitting on the grave, he had distinctly felt a commotion of the earth, as if occasioned by someone struggling beneath…spades were hurriedly procured, […]
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What Is Jeff Bezos Burying?
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For some, July 5, 1994 is the date that will live in infamy in the retail industry. That’s when Jeff Bezos founded Amazon and turned the world of shopping upside down. Bezos elicits extreme reactions: he’s either the “whiz kid” whose fledgling online bookstore launched the ultra-convenient world of E-commerce, or he’s the narcissistic Croesus who […]
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Remembering Our Veterans on the 4th of July
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Dale Wayne Quick, who passed at away at the age of 91 in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 13, 2019, was not a national figure. His name never appeared in the New York Times. He was not discussed on Fox News, CNN, TMZ or The View. He didn’t win a national lottery, star on Jeopardy or […]
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Do Animals Mourn?
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This is a true story: In 2006, two ducks were rescued from a foie gras factory in New York and taken to a farm sanctuary. The two, named Harper and Kohl, were in bad shape physically. Harper was blind in one eye and Kohl’s legs were severely impaired by untreated fractures. Both ducks were extremely […]
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