“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”  Mark Twain   Let’s go for the big idea...

Thanksgiving is this week.  Those of us in the US set aside a day to express gratitude for all that life brings us.  How can you find...

We have been dog owners for a long time.  The house seems too quiet and clean when there isn’t a dog around.   And we miss the...

In November of 2021, I wrote a blog – Does Anger Define Americans Today?  I wanted to elaborate on some of the findings in that blog...

No sooner did we get out of the surge of the pandemic, that we now must face inflation, job restructuring in large companies resulting in...

This election season has been brutal.  My brain is overwhelmed and now fried in response to the intensity of the political advertisements...

I originally wrote and published this article in September 2020, a couple of months before the 2020 presidential election.  Worry and...

A couple of weeks ago I recorded a podcast with Dr. Krystal Culler of the Virtual Brain Health Center.  She chose the topic of...

As you smell a fresh pine tree, cookies baking, bayberry or orange, do flashes of past Christmas holidays come flooding through your...

The news over the past few weeks brought to light the increased risk of developing dementia from exposure to wildfire smoke.  Air...

It wasn’t all that long ago that there wasn’t much to report on as far as advances in diagnosis and treatment were concerned.  The...

What does living to extended ages mean to the aging brain?  Longevity is part of the vernacular now with advances in medical treatment...

Never did we ever believe when we were much younger that we would be discussing hearing loss!  That was in the realm of ‘old’ people, and...

In 2015, I started the My Boomer Brain blog.  One of my very first blogs was about the Elephant in the Room – Alzheimer’s disease. ...

Brain aging and brain health were gaining attention in the mid-2000s.  I was starting to experience some brain glitches during that time,...

When I start to write a new blog, I pay attention to what the most current topic is that is getting a lot of attention.   Right now,...

There are twelve cranial nerves in the body.  They come in pairs and help to link the brain with other areas of the body, such as the...

When I was researching this article, I came across a couple of article titles that I pulled: “Don’t Try and Control the Uncontrollable”...

There is no shortage of chaos, conflict, and uncertainty in the world today.  The daily onslaught of crises from here at home to around...

The Christmas holidays are such a treasure trove of memories. The sights, the sounds, and the scents of Christmas have very accessible...