So today is a holiday with which I was never allowed to participate. Oh, sure, we bought candy for all the little tykes that would bang on our door, but I wasn’t permitted to travel the streets. It wasn’t our holiday.
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I was thrilled when I was reading a recent Business Week issue. It heralded the new developments of someone I used to know well. We travel in different circles now (he still resides in the Boston area and he still works with the respiratory system and its issues), so we’ve fallen out of touch.
Continue reading NO. This one’s NOT a no-no.
It’s that time of year. The granting of the MacArthur awards and the Nobel Prizes. Which included 3 guys who were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for advancing the state of the art when it comes to circadian rhythms. And, the awardees didn’t devote their work solely to humans, but animals and plants, as well. (Amazingly, circadian rhythms affect disease susceptibility, growth rates- even the size of fruits that are grown.)
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Summer’s over. Which means- for most of us- it’s the season of gaining weight and getting out of shape. Exactly why I am talking about exercise today.
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Open Season starts next Wednesday. Yup. I’ve warned you for the past two months to make sure that you knew your password and all your information was up to date. Because starting next Wednesday, it’s going to be crunch time.
Today, I ‘ll discuss some of the upcoming changes to PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare) that are coming. Yes, I’ve brought some of them up– and because there’s a lot of information, I will continue this discussion tomorrow, too.
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I remember the first time I came to DC. I was almost 4 years old.
My folks took me to the Smithsonian, the White House, the US Capitol, and the Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments. And, I remember a most curious little house on the edge of the mall, near the Washington Monument. I thought it was for the Park Police. (It was then- but, then they abandoned it. It simply became the home for vagrants, until it was “locked up”.)
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I mentioned a few days ago how Leonardo Da Vinci was one of my childhood heroes. And, he not only amped up my interest in science and painting- but in poetry. So, telling you that Edgar Allen Poe was among the first poets to pique my fancy should not surprise you. (I am talking about The Raven, But to be honest, while Annabelle Lee is also among my favorite poems, my heart belongs to to the sublime e.e. cummings…) But, I digress.
Continue reading What the month of Cheshvan should teach us.
Do you know that the IRS has not changed its policies on gifts? That any business gift that costs more than $ 25 is taxable to the extent if exceeds that threshold? That is has been in place since 1981- which means at the very least the IRS should have changed the deductible limit to $ 66.
I remember going to the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) way, way back. I was 12 years old. And, that visit happened to be on the 34th birthday of Martin Luther King. (No, that’s NOT why we were visiting the museum.)
