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   While researching my next novel, which at this writing remains untitled(I’ll keep you posted!), I had the opportunity to delve into the fascinating yet sometimes eye-opening world of Service Animals.  The formal definition is any animal specifically trained to perform tasks for a disabled individual that they would otherwise have difficulty completing on their own.  …

Jury Duty – two of the most dreaded and joked about words known to modern man. It’s been said when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to 12 people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. A sobering thought, I would think, for both sides of the table. When …

Do you find it sad, as I do, that each year as the holiday season bids its farewell so do our attempts at random acts of kindness?  Does it really take a jolly old soul on a silent night, roasting your chestnuts for you to remember that you share this planet with others? Sometime in …

    I recently endured a week suffering with fevers, chills, and headaches with pressure originating behind my right eye.  With no other symptoms, I assumed I was viral and remained optimistic my immune system would prevail.  When my energy level waned, then failed, my husband brought me to the E.R. When asked about my symptoms …

Is the picture you conjure in your mind when you think of Thanksgiving Day one from a Lifetime movie complete with a smiling loving family, grouped around a perfectly roasted turkey with gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing, and butter rolls? And let’s not forget the pie – apple, pumpkin, pecan; just stick it …

Migraine headache is a subject I carry close to my heart (and head) since suffering from the mind-numbing malady since the young age of eight. For you lucky ones, never having to lock yourself in a dark cave avoiding the power tools required to decapitate the pain; a migraine headache can cause intense, throbbing, pulsing …

    I confess.  Having been raised in the northeastern United States and migrating to southern Florida, like so many of you, I’ve developed issues with seasons that never actually change. Florida’s winter weather has forever lured us – from Ernest Hemingway to Chris Evert to Gloria Estefan.  And it’s not just grandma and grandpa with …

   Did you know our bodies, these complicated vessels we take for granted, are about 60% water? Neither did I, until it was brought to my attention I was flirting with dehydration, plunging me head first into search mode without my floaties. Water does so much more than quench your thirst: –  It makes up …

Headlining the news in my corner of the world is Chikungunya. Although it sounds like something you might be tempted to order in your favorite restaurant rather than the Chicken Marsala or Chicken Piccata, let me assure you that it isn’t anything you’d want to add to your bucket list. You see, Chikungunya is a …

     The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees freedom of expression.  We’re free to scribble or shout our opinions hugging the corner of slander and libel while aiming our arrows at whomever or what ever we have in our crosshairs. But how far do we take it, this freedom of ours? Having been born into …