Life as a professional football player can be hard on the body. Players often refer to playing on Sunday as equivalent to being in a major car accident once a week. For Art Still, playing in the league for over 10 years was an absolute pleasure, but also a nightmareContinue Reading
If you look at photos of the 1950s and 1960s, you’ll notice one common thing: everyone in the picture is slimmer and healthier looking. Pictures of countless people in shape are a thing of the past. Today, it seems like we’re all struggling with keeping our bodies in shape andContinue Reading
Thirty years ago, anyone who contracted Multiple Sclerosis (MS) felt like they were just given a death sentence. Treatments for the chronic autoimmune disease were nonexistent, and the medical community had no answers for those afflicted with the illness. Today, things are different. Although cases are up, so are theContinue Reading
Akil Marshall is no ordinary man. The deep thinker has always been on a mission to create a meaningful life for himself, his children, and his community. Marshall grew up in an era of America wherein Black men were not supposed to want much. And depending on who you talkContinue Reading
We all have skipped things. In my life, I have skipped past a song, I have skipped past a commercial. I have skipped past the credits to get to the end. But never in my life did I ever expect to skip past death as I fought a bacterial infectionContinue Reading
Finding love today is like looking for gold. You must dig deep in a remote place and test and test the area until you see little bits of hope in finding what you are looking for. Once you see little pieces of hope, you then must work the area inContinue Reading
Let us face it, many people want to retain their youth and want to live forever! Therefore, as we reflect and look directly at aging, it is a complex biological process that affects every living organism. Aging is the gradual decline in physiological function and the increased vulnerability to diseasesContinue Reading
In our modern world of technological advances, it’s hard to believe that inoculations were first introduced in China and Indian more than 500 years ago. The first successful vaccine was developed in 1796 by Dr. Edward Jenner, which eventually resulted in the worldwide eradication of smallpox by 1980. More disbeliefContinue Reading
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to physicist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, wrote “… in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” How right he was as the inevitability of death is something none of us can deny. Somehow, some way, someday, we’re goingContinue Reading
The nuclear family has for decades been the subject of much discussion. What exactly is a “nuclear family,” what are its operational dynamics, and do the pros outweigh the cons? To answer the first question, a nuclear family is what psychologists and sociologists consider the “basic universal form of familyContinue Reading
