Archive for the ‘health’ Category

• The saga continues

  Thursday, November 17th, 2011

  The verdict in the trial in the death of Michael Jackson has been in a little more than a few weeks old and now there is new drama. For now Dr. Conrad Murray is on suicide watch! I watched, with a large portion of the world, the trial of Conrad Murray, the personal physician of [...]

• An you thought Scrooge was bad

  Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

  Who ever said that no good deed goes unpunished was oh so right. When a group of Washington high school football officials decided to donate their pay checks to the Susan G. Koman foundation for breast cancer research and to use pink whistles at the next game, little did they know that they would be [...]

• We are winning

  Monday, October 4th, 2010

  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is the time of year when women are asked and encouraged to go get their mammograms. But better yet, they should get theirs while taking someone they love with them. All around the country there are activities to bring to the forefront the need to save lives.   [...]

• Don’t tune this message out!

  Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  The television has become a constant backdrop to our busy lives. Most of us have learned to only snap to attention when key words alert us to information we want to watch. This year like so many others, public service messages are encouraging us to get our flu shots. But this year there has been [...]

• Supersizing is killing us

  Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

  Southern girl that I am, I must admit that I have a love of good food. Even though I was not brought up on fast food, I love it. I have in the last few years come to have an adversity to some fast food because of the need to supersize everything. Or when looked [...]