You wake up Monday morning seeing the sunshine through your blinds and hear your alarm clock blaring. You blink a couple of times and immediately close your eyes, sensitive to the pulsing cluster headache, and want to go back to sleep. You remember now that you...
While sex education and birth control are more readily available than ever, both are still divisive topics. Religious beliefs, societal expectations, and lack of education play a large role in the choices people make, and it can be easy to take those choices for...
One little known fact about the month of March is that it bears the designation of National Craft Month. A craft, known as a skill that involves making things by hand, is an incredibly broad term that may categorize thousands of different activities from painting,...
1911 was, by and large, an eventful year. It was the year when the first official airmail flight took off, the year that the NAACP was consolidated, the year when the world witnessed the theft of the Mona Lisa, the year when Portugal approved female suffrage,...
The first Friday in March marks National Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour opportunity to step away from our phones, laptops and the all-encompassing devices that are tightly knitted into the fabric of our daily lives. From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday is not that...
Lately, on my runs, I’ve noticed signs that the season is changing. The humidity is hanging light and damp; there is a bright freshness to the air; the leaves are coming back on the trees young and green; even the deer and rabbits are hesitantly coming out to play....
Dr. Mona Potter says that a self-soothe kit is a “cope ahead” method. This kit can be songs you enjoy, books or articles that help you, quotes you love, motivational things such as TED Talks or YouTube videos that inspire you. It can be a hobby that you do. It can...
One of the most common symptoms of the notorious COVID-19 virus, a lack of one’s sense of smell, has brought anosmia awareness front and center. Anosmia, also known as the inability to smell, is a medical condition with a wide variety of underlying causes. It also...
Unfortunately, many of us have a friend or family member who has been diagnosed with cancer. Of all the cancer diagnoses and deaths in the United States, 4 in 10 are attributed to modifiable risk factors - things like tobacco use, excessive sun exposure, poor diet,...
Dieting has become a part of mainstream media and culture for many generations. Although millennials are now raising awareness of body stigma and fat-shaming, these topics are still an all too familiar conversation around the dinner table. Dieting, in any form, is...
More and more people are thrift shopping these days, giving once pre-loved items a second chance. There are many reasons why people go thrift shopping, and below my friend Brooklyn tells me hers. Brooklyn Colby lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana and has been thrift...
Nearly every person around us knows someone who has been impacted by heart disease. As the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States, heart disease has taken a toll upon our communities, upon our loved ones, and upon our healthcare system. Like...
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