Last week, I attended Philadelphia’s Go Red for Women luncheon whose goal is to raise funds for the American Heart Association and encourage awareness of the issue of women and heart disease. Several speakers shared their personal stories of feeling dismissed by...
Who doesn’t remember the old adage, “April Showers Bring May Flowers” as a way of explaining the wet weather we often have in April. What I didn’t understand when I was little was why I was sneezing so much! Now that I’m, ahem,...
Even if you’re not a college basketball fan — whether men’s or women’s — it’s hard not to know that March is tournament time — also known as ‘March Madness.’ The term ‘March Madness’ has been linked to basketball since...
If you’ve not had the need to visit or be admitted to a hospital in the last three years, the information in this issue of The Flame may surprise you. Regardless, I hope it disturbs you and urges you to action. Recently, a new survey about increasing violence against...
Happy New Year!!! I’m not sure if it is a good sign or a bad sign that the first time I heard about “Dry January” was one week ago! Apparently, Dry January began in 2012 as an initiative by Alcohol Change UK, a British non-profit, to ‘ditch the...
For many years as a young adult, I greeted the winter holiday season with trepidation. It took many years to figure out that I was the one in charge of managing my ‘holiday’ stress. But then again, I have never been hospitalized during Christmas. That...
