As we get used to living our lives during a global pandemic, we have to face the reality that, eventually, all of us will likely know someone who contracts COVID-19 (a lot of us do already). I told you last week about losing a dear friend who most likely had the virus. He was not…

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My cousin lives in New York City. He moved there right after college and has never wanted to live anywhere else since. He loves the city, the pace of life there, the people and the cultural opportunities. Yet when I talked to him on the phone yesterday, there was only sadness in his voice. The…

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It’s hard to get away from breaking news on coronavirus. It’s everywhere… on television, Facebook, Twitter… there’s no escape. And of course, you’ve been hearing plenty about it from me… I hope that’s OK and that you understand where I’m coming from. The information keeps coming — and because it does — it’s not easy…

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As I’m writing this, the number of cases of coronavirus in the United States has topped 158,000. New hot spots are developing across the country, showing us that the worst is yet to come. Suddenly even people who believed that the virus was nothing more than a passing threat, overblown in the news and media,…

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It’s been a tough week. A longtime friend passed away. To say it came as a shock is an understatement. His cause of death — pneumonia. It took him about 10 days to succumb, many of which were spent on a ventilator. He was tested for coronavirus several times. Each time the test came back…

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A very good friend of mine’s mother passed away about a year ago. One moment she was socializing and drinking wine with her adult daughters in the kitchen… the next she was gone. Her daughters left the kitchen to get something from another room and were gone maybe 5 minutes. When they went back into…

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Is my crushing chest pain the coronavirus? This past Saturday morning I did a lot of shopping… to put it mildly. My shopping cart in the grocery store was so full that people were actually pointing and laughing at me, if you can imagine that. It’s not as if I had gone completely off the…

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My husband has asthma. He’s a first responder which puts him in close contact with a lot of people daily. We recently found out my oldest son doesn’t make the proper antibodies to protect him from respiratory infection after four bouts of tonsillitis last spring. The diagnosis was honestly no shock since he’s been prone…

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You’ve been in my thoughts all weekend. I’m sure like me, you’re worried about what to expect as this unprecedented health crisis unfolds. And it is unfolding quickly and changing daily. It’s important to stay aware… in particular of what is going on in your local area. But I also ask you to stay alert…

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Most of us have experienced a “disruption of the gut” at one time or another and know just how uncomfortable, or even downright painful, it can be. In fact, when business as usual stops down there, real problems start. That’s why it’s so important to keep your gut in rhythm — and by that, I…

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