Children overmedicated

April 7, 2009 | 5 comments

A thought-provoking article I just read in “The Washington Post National Weekly Edition,” states that the debate over the effectiveness of long-term drug treatment of children with hyperactivity or attention-deficit disorder has been reignited. For years, millions of parents have

Eyes are for seeing

April 4, 2009 | 1 comment

A reader forwarded a comical email to me for fun. It’s rather silly, but the message has a way of sticking in thought if improved eyesight was a recent prayer. Here it is: THE EYES If you rearrange the letters,

Just for fun…

April 3, 2009 | 2 comments

A knee-slapper sent in by a reader… Subject: Holy E Mail One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the

Overmedication of America

April 2, 2009 | 6 comments

I read a book recently, titled, “Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry is medicating a nation,” by Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Barber contends that Americans are horrendously overdosed in psychiatric medicines, and provides

No long drawn out suffering

April 1, 2009 | 3 comments

I struggled with a little health issue for a few days recently that ordinarily would vanish with a short prayer. It was not a big deal, but I got a bit bothered by why it hadn’t yielded quickly this time.