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Who knows you better than you know yourself? Do the opinions of others mean more than your own when it comes to knowing who you are?

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        The tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease is that it is a thief…the condition steals so much from those who are struggling to live with it.  Not only does it steal a person’s ability to remember day- to- day activities and responsibilities; it steals a person’s independence.  As the disease progresses, it takes away the individuals [...]

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        If you are like most people, you have a cabinet or a drawer somewhere in your home with bottles, tubes, boxes and containers of unused medications.  Over the counter medications as well as perscription medications tend to sit in those drawers and cabinets; sometimes, they expire and are no longer as effective.  Perhaps the [...]

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       Today, a judge in Minnesota decided that a 13 year old cancer patient’s family does NOT have the right to reject chemotherapy, for their son who has Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  The family of the young man had decided, along with their son, that they wished to honor their religious beliefs to choose natural healing and alternative [...]

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A couple of news items that caught my attention today: the chimpanzee that attacked it’s owners friend, Charla Nash, and horribly caused facial damage as well as causing her to lose her hands, was found to definitely have some levels of Xanax in his system.  When the incident first happened, there were some news reports [...]

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       I dont know why this product is called Plan B; however, most people have heard the old saying…”Let’s Go With Plan B”.  That sounds like anytime someone hits a roadblock in their path…they simply decide to change course, choose another direction…it sounds like an innocent phrase.   Today, Plan B is one of the least innocent phrases [...]

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        Do you know anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer?  Did you know that 1 out of 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime…1 out of 2 men.  So unless you are a family of one, with no friends and you are the luckiest person in the whole wide world…cancer is [...]

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      Are you tired of trying to find family activities that you don’t have to apologize to your kids for; inevitably, many of those so called family activities, violate the very family values that you are trying to instill in your children?  Well, here is an event that you won’t have to justify taking your [...]

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        For those of you who have never heard of Operation Smile it is a great not-for-profit organization that organizes volunteers who team up to medically improve the lives of children who were born with facial deformities.  The non profit was begun by Dr. William P. Magee, Jr. who is a plastic surgeon and his [...]

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      There are people who wish to die everywhere around the world…they each have their reasons…some actually make it happen.  Those people are often desperate, sick, experiencing financial, emotional or physical difficulties which can cloud, or influence their decision to take their own life.  My concern is, that in those moments of desperation or depression, [...]

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