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Cabin Fever No More
Tricks for staying sane, and maybe grow a little Most of us who are not on the ‘front lines’ of...
Pandemic Claustrophobia
Surviving the coronavirus lockdown with your partner The pandemic has forced couples to spend much...
In the Aftermath
How Coronavirus might change our world We’ll get through this, as we have gotten through other...
Pet Spas
The delightful doggie experience “Tell me, how was it?” “It was fabulous, simply fabulous.The...
Making A Run for It
And don’t forget your toilet paper The passage of time felt like a strong wind pulling you...
Podcasts
Talking to Grandchildren
How to deal with sensitive issues Throughout their trajectories, families can face a variety of...
Moving On
Making a change and re-defining your life. Changing our environment as we get older is healthy. We...
Personal Security
Do you feel safe? As we get on in years, we might not feel as safe as when we were younger. Part...
Treating PTSD
A ground-breaking approach We often think of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as an affliction...
A Return to Community
Overriding the individual America seems to have lost it’s way. Today we define ourselves as...
Celebrating Memorial Day
Honoring those who protect us by keeping them safe. The historical record makes it clear that war...
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Baseball’s Most Unusual Team: Part 2
Welcome to the House of David (Editor’s Note: With the delay in the baseball season, we thought something on the subject would help alleviate the pain.) Let’s get back to baseball and why in...
Baseball’s Most Unusual Team: Part 1
Welcome to The House of David Major League Baseball starts this month. Opening day with all the inherent hoopla is somewhere in the neighborhood of March 26th. This reminded me of the most...
Edward Brooke
America’s first African American Senator When we look at American politics right now we see polarized, stagnated anger. But there was a time when that wasn’t the case. There were people...
You Ate What?
Dining in Ancient Rome Thinking about dining in Ancient Rome conjures up images of the well-heeled reclining on couches and eating until they made themselves sick. That certainly happened at times...
What You Give Away in Social Media
Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck’s thoughts about Social Media. By Bill Wood And you thought the 2016 national elections told us a lot about ourselves? Wait’ll you learn...
Bocce
A great sport, minus the sweating. As a young boy I remember going to the park off Jerome Avenue on Sunday afternoons in the post war Bronx, to play baseball or basket ball or ring-a-levio, with my...
Male and Female Brains
Are men and women wired differently? Men and women are different — not an earth-shattering revelation. Not that one is better than the other, just different. The male brain is about 10% larger...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To Beat or Not To Beat In the late 40’s and into the 50’s and 60’s, a movement of unorthodox writers and artists came upon a stagnant literary world and decided through their work to change the...
High Priced Pets
Not your bargain basement varieties The other day I went to the supermarket looking for cooking oil, asparagus sprouts, strawberries and tortillas. (Don’t ask) As I was strolling through the...
This day in History
October 12, 1921 On this day in 1921, the League of Nations achieved its first major peaceful settlement, of the Upper Silesia dispute. A banner day for intelligence overcoming brute force. The...
