Category: Education

My aunt used to come to a holiday dinner and eat something before anybody else. Cranberry sauce was her go-to. "Why can she eat before everybody else does?" I whispered...

Here's the latest scoop on shingles, and it's already too late to do anything about it. That is, you'll know it when you have it. I'm getting the shingles shot...

Are you saying, "What?" too much? If you say it because the person you're communicating with is a low talker, ok. That's a reason. But it's rare that person after...

Sixty-five years ago, always an inquisitive child, my mother decided to tell me why we had so much booze, hidden on all of the shelves in the large breakfront and...

When I found out, in April 2009, I had a stroke almost a month later, I was traumatized that I had a brain injury. So of course, I called my...

I was a runner 30 years ago, and then I had a stroke in 2009 that put that activity on the back shelf permanently, only to be left with good--and...

When he was little, around seven or so, I took my son to a few homes of friends who had chickenpox so that he would get them, too, instead of...

I didn't drink in excess, or smoke, or have diabetes, or have high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, or obesity, the main reasons why people have strokes. I'll get to point,...

There are three things about getting old that make it worth the wait.  I don't remember when it exactly happened (lately, I know for sure), but I have new-found wisdom,...

Portland, like other cities, can be "crazy bad" when the temperature spikes. I venture to say, brain injury survivors are near the top of the list. Look at English expressions:...