Patience That I No Longer Seem To Have
UNITED STATES─I’ve known this for a while, but it seems to hit me more and more as I get older: my patience is waning. Why? I had to make a run, as it seems the economy is slowly, but surely reopening and it seems things while not normal is trying to get there. I have no problem waiting in...
Uncomfortable Talking About Race, Why?
UNITED STATES─This is a question that I’ve constantly had to ask myself time and time again: why is the topic of race something that so many people are afraid to discuss. Right now our country is in the midst of one of the biggest, most politically, devastating and eye-opening times we’ve ever seen. Race relations have reached a point...
Stress Creates More Stress
UNITED STATES─If there is one thing most Americans have in common even if they don’t realize it: its stress. Yes, it’s a six-letter word, one that forces so many of us to want to tear out our hair, while others find ways to cope with it. What exactly does that mean? It means we all encounter stress, but everyone...
Sleeping Dilemma
UNITED STATES─Sleep it has to be the one thing that I crave more than anything in life. I will be completely honest: I don’t sleep great at night. If I’m lucky, I might get 6 hours, but for the past 3-4 weeks, I’ve been averaging probably 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Yes, America I know that is not...
Protests Gone Wrong
UNITED STATES─Our country is indeed facing unspeakable times right now. Race has always been a heavily debated and decisive topic. We want to talk about it, but at the same time we don’t, however, with the current state of the world, there is no hiding from it. The tragic and unfathomable death of George Floyd has left the entire...
New Perspective On Coronavirus Pandemic
UNITED STATES─I know I am not the only person who has been feeling constrained with the stay-at-home orders that have been implemented throughout our country in the past 12 weeks, if not longer. At this point it has been so long I truly cannot remember what day it is from one week to the next. I want the economy...
Faulty Technology Frustration
UNITED STATES─I know for a fact that I am not the only person who gets super frustrated when technology goes haywire. It’s like the one thing that can take a day that seems to be moving well and turn it into a complete nightmare. Nothing annoys me more than slow internet or inconsistent internet. This happens in my house...
We Can Do Much More Than Sit On Our Couch
UNITED STATES─I admit that in the beginning, I truly believed the safest thing for us to do during this pandemic was to simply stay home. It did make sense to flatten the curve to alleviate the inundation of patients to our hospitals. Also, there was no panacea out there to protect us, so couch sitting gave us a small...
Doctor’s Advice…Get Traditional Medicare…What’s That?
UNITED STATES─Good Morning Toni: Have been reading your column for over a year and now I need some Medicare help. I am retiring and turning 65 in October. I had a triple bi-pass in April of this year. Last week, I talked with the office manager at my cardiologist’s office about me getting on Medicare and what I should...
Did You Spend Your Stimulus Check Wisely?
UNITED STATES─I hope you’re like me and received a stimulus check from the government that allows you to sustain during these unprecedented times right now. Yeah, we have a global pandemic, something many of us never expected or could have thought would transpire to us in a trillion years, but it has happened. States literally closed their governments, millions...