August 2012
August 24th, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
August 14, 2012 is a day to remember. It is the day the GOP publicly played the race card for the first time in this election cycle. It was a sly move. They dealt the first card off a deck held by Joe Biden. Complete with contrived outrage, the party indulged in a full-fledged temper fit and demanded a full apology for a racial reference that oddly, had nothing to do with race! Confused? Let me...
August 23rd, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Algae, a miracle health food provided by Mother Nature, and Catharine Arnston, Founder and CEO of the Naughty Nutritionist Inc. agrees. According to NASA, World Bank, and the United Nations algae is the most nutritionally dense food in the world. It has 3 times more protein than steak, 50 times more iron than spinach, 4 times more chlorophyll than wheatgrass, all electrolytes, most B vitamins,...
August 22nd, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
Gone are the days when Tequila was merely a party drink used as a means for teenagers and young adults to drink along with salt and lime. These days tequila is a cultured spirit with the brands and flavors as diverse as the people who now call this their after dinner drink of choice.
From the country of Mexico, tequila is produced by fermented juices from the Blue Agave plant, which, as noted by...
August 20th, 2012
Written by Russell Roberts in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Mary Edwards Walker had the bad luck to be born a century too early. Throughout her lifetime, she received severe criticism for practicing medicine and fighting to achieve equal rights for women, things we take for granted today.
Born on November 26, 1832, on the family farm in Oswego, New York, Walker’s father Alvah, a freethinker and reformist, had a profound influence on her, particularly...
August 17th, 2012
Written by Cindy Ferraino in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
As the baby boomer generation, and this means parents ranging in age from 48-66 years old, including all races & ethnicities, begin inching their way toward retirement through a turbulent job market, their plans to bask in the glow of retirement are now clouded with the recent upswing in welcoming adult children back home. The adult children involved in this upswing are “the boomerang”...