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My very personal reason for honoring Black History Month

This morning, I was looking into my medicine cabinet mirror (not for long; I’m not vain in the morning), when the word “steroid” popped up in my head. In that medicine cabinet were several steroid-based medications which have made my … Continue reading

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If you have a chronic health condition, have you ever wondered where steroids came from?

I do and I did. I first began to understand the ubiquity of steroids while my father slowly went downhill due to emphysema. There was no remedy but there were two mitigating substances he took. One of them was prednisone. … Continue reading

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I’ve been re-reading Russian lit and have been stunned by one universal theme

I didn’t say to myself one day, “I’m going to read my collection of Russian lit.” There was no such plan. Simply, I decided it was time to re-read Anna Karenina. I was uneasy about doing it, uneasy about the … Continue reading

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