Part I: Health Insurance in 1958
Health insurance’s original aim was to protect the public against the financial shock of illness, but also intended to halt state medicine.
Health insurance’s original aim was to protect the public against the financial shock of illness, but also intended to halt state medicine.
Don’t just ‘think green,’ drink green with these delicious summer smoothies from Kristine Miles’ The Green Smoothie Bible.
Celebrating the life of versatile actor Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012).
It had been in effect just a short time, but Stanley Frank already knew the G.I. Bill was going to be a flop.
Thanks in large part to the economy, a record number of adult children are moving back home. So are their grandparents. And, guess what? It’s working!
What is it going to take to wean Americans off the car and get us back onto buses and trains?
American parenthood fell into decay 100 years ago, according to this Post article.
Appearing on a Saturday Evening Post cover could be a springboard to fame, and this Post cover features an eventual movie star.
An interview with Dr. William Thies, chief medical and scientific officer for the Alzheimer’s Association. In the spring of 2011, the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association announced a new pre-clinical stage of Alzheimer’s Disease, marking the first change in the definition of the illness in 27 years. The announcement grows out of […]
To stay at any of these elegant lodgings is to venture back to another, more genteel time.
My beloved mother-in-law made her departure from this world last week. Despite all of my writing about aging and illness, I couldn’t write about her when it was happening. At 74 and vivacious to the end, she seemed far too young for something this final. Even today, a week later, pressing the send button on […]
In Spring of 1944 Norman Rockwell visited his local ration board — with sketchpad in hand, of course.
Turns out, farming is a lot simpler than it first appears.
The necklaces and bracelets made famous by those “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” TV advertisements back in the ‘80s can seem like a brilliant idea. So simple, so inexpensive. Such devices, also known as PERS (Personal Emergency Response Systems) certainly can work fine. There’s just one catch. The fallen one has to actively press a button to signal for help, and frequently the system breaks down.
Congratulations to Rita Schilling our January/February 2012 Limerick Laughs Contest Winner!
It’s spring! Wouldn’t you rather be playing ball?