Popular culture tells us that when I was a little girl, we used to celebrate Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday along with Valentine's Day every February. However, due to the difficulty in having two such paid holidays, Washington and Lincoln's birthday celebrations were combined and called President's Day. These stories began circulating in the 1950's. Adding to the confusion of these rumors was the notion that President Nixon is credited with changing Washingtong's birthday to President's Day commemorating ALL presidents including himself. Nixon did issue an Executive Order declaring the third Monday of February as Washington's Birthday, but the notion he called for it to be called President's Day celebrating all presidents was actually from a newspaper spoof. According to this snopes article, in 1968, the New York Times reported:...
Are you an "emotional female" droning on to your doctor, year after year. about “little things” like fibromyalgia, thyroid issues, insomnia, menopause, or hypoglycemia? Have you encountered any of the following Doctor Talk only to become confused because your brain is fuzzy from lack of sleep or the pain that is "all in your head?" Having trouble deciphering what your doctor means? Maybe you need the... Secret Doctor Talk Decoder Ring: * All the tests came back negative. (Translation: I don’t know what else to do for you so you’ll just have to live with it.) * Maybe you should take a few days off work. (Translation: I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you, but you might feel better if you...
On Monday I posted about how doctors don't communicate to their patients well enough. Today I'd like to talk about something a bit outside the medical community, but still in the health industry. This week's word is Natural. I posted about this a few years ago, but thought it was appropriate to bring it back this week to share with you a very important distinction that is not usually made when advertising health related products. Natural By JoJo Tabares You may never know it by listening to political rhetoric, TV commercials or the main-stream media, but words actually mean things. Specific things! If we allow ourselves to get caught up in the current trend to re-define words and to use...
It's time again for Friday Funnies and since we are still celebrating Ronald Reagan's birthday this week, I thought I'd post a rare video of his appearance on What's My Line that I found on YouTube. Enjoy this vintage black and white humor spectical. If you liked this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed and share the link…
In honor of Ronald Reagn's birthday this week, the word of the week is humor. What is humor? Merriam Webster defines it as "a: that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b: the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c: something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing." x Humor comes in many forms including: one liners, jokes, whiticisms, puns, slapstick, and sarcasm. Some humor involves the telling of stories and Ronald Reagan had plenty of them always at the ready. This is a rare YouTube video montage of his best Soviet Union jokes he loved to share. x If you liked this post, please subscribe...
