Category Archives: Health and wellness

Outside Time

Posted on 05/13/2024 by Jorge Medico

Hope you all had a chance to celebrate Mother’s Day. The following comes from the Archives, but seems as relevant now as when I first posted it over three years ago. That seems to have a relevance of its own. … Continue reading →

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Focused Listening

Posted on 05/06/2024 by Jorge Medico

I have long decried the concept of multitasking as a terrible way to live your life, not to mention counterproductive to what you’re trying to accomplish. There is a lot of data to back up my position, but I’m more … Continue reading →

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SELF IMPROVEMENT WORKSHOPS

Posted on 03/18/2024 by Jorge Medico

Given all that is happening in the world today, I want to take a short pause and attempt to inject a small dose of humor into our conversation. With the proliferation of the self-help movement, you can find workshops on … Continue reading →

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The Power of Silence

Posted on 02/12/2024 by Jorge Medico

We as a society are too connected to our phones, entertainment, our music. Many of us have lost the desire and ability to unplug from this world, and to allow silence and reflection to enter back into our lives. The … Continue reading →

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If You Can’t Take a Joke, You Shouldn’t Get Married

Posted on 01/22/2024 by Jorge Medico

Once you find that special someone, you want to believe that this relationship will surmount all the challenges that come with trying to meld two personalities with different agendas into a peaceful coexistence. Under the best of circumstances, this is … Continue reading →

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The Challenge and Threat of Pseudoscience

Posted on 01/15/2024 by Jorge Medico

There was a piece yesterday on CBS Sunday morning about a man frozen for the past thirty years and preserved now for as long as someone is willing to pay the bills in a tank of liquid nitrogen through a … Continue reading →

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Best Books List

Posted on 01/08/2024 by Jorge Medico

A friend recently asked me to list twenty of my favorite books that I’ve read in the past few years. They are not all recent releases, and I can’t claim that they are the best books literature has to offer. … Continue reading →

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Hope for the New Year

Posted on 01/01/2024 by Jorge Medico

Today is the start of another year, 2024. I’m not an optimist by nature, but given the world I find myself in, I don’t feel my best strategy lies in despair. I suspect, like many of you, I need to … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Gift of Life

Posted on 12/25/2023 by Jorge Medico

It’s Christmas Day. As we gather with family and friends, we join you in giving thanks for all the miracles life brings through the portals of our individual worlds. Ironically, just as we witnessed this week the passing of one … Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on 12/18/2023 by Jorge Medico

Patience has never been one of my strengths. While I don’t hit the horn when the car in front of me sits for mere milliseconds when the light turns green, I have difficulty driving behind a slow moving vehicle or … Continue reading →

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