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Continue reading →: New Post Like Option
Greetings readers! Thanks to recent feedback from a reader, I did some research and found a WordPress plugin that allows anonymous likes! So you no longer need a WordPress account to like my posts!! You will find the new option at the bottom of all my posts. It’s currently a…
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Continue reading →: What is Public Health?
National Public Health Week (NPHW) was from April 6 to 12 this year. It is organized by the American Public Health Association. So it’s basically a week to celebrate the field of public health. I went to the APHA website to try to learn what the week was all about.…
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Continue reading →: ACEs and Fuel
ACEs (adverse childhood experiences). It’s like a word find. If we can just identify and circle all the ACEs and pull them out of the jumble of letters that is our messy lives, children will grow up healthy. Simply circle the ACEs. Easy peasy. Seeing a dead body. Okay children…
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Continue reading →: Inflection Points and Actions
In January, around Martin Luther King Jr Day, someone I met years ago when I was more of an activist made a really thought-provoking post on Facebook. He asked:1. What current events do you think people in 30 years may look back on and view as moments that call people…
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Continue reading →: What is enough?
When it comes to activism, specifically fighting racism, I’ve been getting interesting advice from people I follow on social media. The main point is: unless you’re willing to put yourself in harm’s way, even die, nothing you do is enough. You’re not really an ally if you’re not willing to…
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Continue reading →: This Stops Today book
I recently read This Stops Today by Gwen Carr. She is the mother of Eric Garner. If that name is not familiar to you I invite you to learn more online. In brief, he was killed in July 2014 in New York City by police officers. The medical examiner ruled…
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Continue reading →: Being Nobody
In high school, my favorite poem was one by Emily Dickinson. To be clear, it wasn’t just my favorite poem, it may have been the only poem I liked, of all the ones we’d been forced to read in English class. Poetry never really spoke to me (unless it was…
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Continue reading →: Brain MRI update
Great news! My post-surgery brain MRI on 12/28/25 was great!! “Findings: Interval removal of the right parafalcine meningioma. There is no evidence of recurrent or residual meningioma. No new intracranial mass.” My surgeon did an amazing job and got the whole tumor!! I still need regular brain MRIs. Next one…
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Continue reading →: Between the World and Me
I finished listening to Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates on 1/31/26. It was transcendent. The best way I can describe it was that it felt like I was flying. His powerful transmission of his lived experience was almost an out of body experience for me. I was…
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Continue reading →: Another Med Gone!
As of today I am down to just 2 mental health medications!!! That is the first time I’ve been on just 2 medications since probably September 2022. I dropped from 10 meds in early March 2025 to 2 meds on January 30, 2026! So that is 8 prescription mental health…