Heart disease has been the number 1 killer in America for a century. Nearly half of all people have some type of cardiovascular disease, yet 38% don’t even realize they have it, according to the American Heart Association. That makes American Heart Month each February an important time of ...

One of the first things my wife and I did when we moved into our farmhouse more than four decades ago was dig a well. Our house, which was built by my grandparents in the early 1960s, drew its water from a cistern. This was good and bad. It was good because the cistern was supplied by ...

Just about everyone has heard the phrase ‘sleep on it’. Sleep is important in many ways. What follows is one of those very important ways. Sleep is incredibly important for memory and learning. Think about the immense amount of information that we acquire over a lifetime, or even in a ...

The Facebook photo caption read something like: “You think we’re having a winter? This is what a real winter looks like! Photo was taken in 1979.” The picture was of a bulldozer trying to clear snow from some railroad tracks. I say “trying” because the situation looked hopeless. ...

I attended an interesting event this month at Marshall’s Adult Community Center, an event that showed the connections between food and fellowship. We learned how to make spring rolls and then tasted them. Our guide in the process was Bee Chomprasob from the Public Health Department of ...

Don Larsen’s perfect game for the New York Yankees in the 1956 World Series is one of the most memorable moments in baseball history. Seventy years later, it remains a signature moment in sports. In an iconic photo from that October day at Yankee Stadium, Larsen is seen leaping into the ...