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Earth Day – What Can You Promise Our Mother?

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When is the last time you really thought about Earth Day?  It’s one of those days that we all support in theory, but have practically forgotten about by the end of the day.  We need to think about it MORE, NOW, because it’s next Monday. Reading about the history of Earth Day made me think… read more

Whistle While You Work

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One of our customers is a lovely, wonderful, smart, thoughtful college student who is contemplating going to medical school.  She emails me every now and then with some questions and musings about whether to go into medicine, and what that life would entail.  I think she values the perspective I can offer, as a physician… read more

We’ll Tell You Ours If You Tell Us Yours

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Okay. It’s time to share some secrets. We will try to make this a regular feature on our blog, as we all have lots of excellent secrets to share. We will post a small, secret something, and you reply with a secret of your own. (You need to reply, because we will stop sharing ours… read more

5 Tips from My Mom (Kinda)

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Judy. To me, Mom. She’s been dead for over 5 years, and, like most women who have lost their moms, I still think of her every day, many times a day – especially as I watch my own girls grow. For a long time, I was just too sad to write about her in a… read more

Natural, Organic and Other Vocabulary Words

It’s time. Time to stop throwing the words “natural” and “organic” at consumers, especially when they are not accurate adjectives to describe the products being sold. Time to stop using phrases like “No Synthetics!”, when anything that has been altered from its raw, natural state is, in some sense, “synthetic”. Time to start telling consumers… read more