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Trendy Cardio Dance Options and Benefits
By Julie Alvira, MD, MBA In a few months the year will end and then comes that time again to do a brand new New Year’s resolutions list. If last year you wrote down to […]
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On Fire But Not Consumed
By Michelle Wallace We live in a culture of dependency. This isn’t an indictment on anything or anyone. I don’t have room to judge. I have been dependent on everything the world has to offer […]
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What Would You Do to Change the World?
By Michelle Wallace When Bono was a little boy growing up in Ireland, he saw America put a man on the moon. He said, “I thought these Americans are mad…they are mad! But I thought […]
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Middle Age Musings: Political Prisoner
Dear Dr. Stanwix, My husband is becoming a staunch Republican before my very eyes. We used to share the same more or less center-left point of view. However, over the years, he has slowly become […]
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The Power of Solitude
By Julia Alvira, MD, MBA We live in a busy world with constant movement. There’s not a stop sign anywhere letting us know that it’s time to take a break. Let’s be honest, even if […]
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Summer Boredom Turned Into “Good Times”
By Georgia Smith, MA When my three children were young, I would think about the upcoming summer and what activities we could do to prevent them from being bored. The truth is, summer boredom is […]
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Hector Picard: Amputee triathlete has no hands and no limits on life
By Hector Picard It’s 10 p.m., and as I am running down the George Washington Bridge in New York City, I noticed my wife Wendy. She asked me how I was feeling, and I told […]
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Glass artist Carlyn Ray
By Melanie Hess 2,300 degrees fahrenheit––It’s with this temperature; the temperature of a volcano, that artist Carlyn Ray feels most alive. That’s because it’s also the level of heat that is required to melt glass. […]
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Plants that Repel Mosquitoes
By Donna S. Barsky, PharmD Love being outdoors but sick of those annoying blood-sucking mosquitoes? With West Nile fever on our doorstep and Zika virus heading for our borders, it’s no wonder we don’t want […]
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Five Summer Vacation Reads
The best book to read on vacation is in the eye of the beholder. For some, getting lost in a faraway fantasy world or suspenseful thriller appeals. For others, getting lost in whirlwind romances is […]