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Quick quiz! What is worse? Candy corn or a Butterfinger? 

In June 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia, leading his Grande Armée of about 680,000 men.

As others’ thoughts turn to the Great Pumpkin, the elderly along with the newly elderly are being treated to advertising about Medicare Advantage and MediGap policy offerings.

Humans are storytellers. In an age when social media has exponentially amplified storytelling, stories provide the common narrative for civilization’s cultures, sharing in our evolution as much as genetics and niche.

I continue to have mixed feelings about the impact of AI on healthcare. It will increase productivity while interjecting non-human agency between us and administrative tasks.

She almost didn’t get accepted into the grad school of her choice, rejected by eleven institutions because her GREs weren’t high enough, a recur

You may be wondering why I proclaimed today to be "Best Leaf Color Day." After all, beautiful scenery is subjective, just like the best time of the year and the location to view it.

President Trump has declared himself a “Tariff Man,” channeling the thoughts of President McKinley. If you are like me, your knowledge is limited to McKinley's untimely death at the hands of an assassin aided by his physicians.

As a Boomer, my golden era of music was the late 1960s and early 1970s. My tastes also reach further back to the 1930s, Swing, and the American Songbook.

It was George Santayana who said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” World War II had unified a fractious US, and those good “vibes” continued to play out over the next 10 to 15 years, a period just barely withi