As the holiday season barrels forward, it’s only natural that my thoughts turn toward the Kardashians. That’s right. The Santa’s, the wreaths, the Bing Crosby songs, the season of goodness and giving causes me to think… what are those pesky Kardashians doing this holiday? They are everywhere. I simply ...
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Gabby Gifford’s amazing story and the release of her book and home video have put rehabilitation medicine and its heroic professionals—the doctors, nurses and therapists—temporarily in the public eye. But I have no doubt it will soon fall back in the shadows of public consciousness. Medical rehabilitation isn’t sexy. There’s no rush of the emergency ...
Our new contributor for Thanksgiving, my sis Nancy! My brother in law Bob likes to take a perfectly good piece of meat and transform it into something other than what it was meant to be. He hacks it into unappetizing “cave man-esque” slabs. Bob averages about four servings per thirteen pound roast. I watched him deface my main course in this way. It was ...
Thanksgiving always seems to sneak up on us, sandwiched in between Halloween and Christmas it sometimes gets short shrift. But there was a time, when I was a kid, that holiday songs weren’t background music for trick or treating. Thanksgiving was a stand-alone holiday, a truly secular day to reflect on our country’s origins and the peaceful joining of ...
On April 19, 2005, Debbie Schulz of Friendswood, Texas, got the call every parent of a service member in Iraq and Afghanistan dreads. Her child had been wounded. When she hung up the phone, in shock, all she knew was that her son was considered to be “VSI”, an acronym that she would later learn meant: “very seriously ...