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Eyefoods

A groundbreaking plan for improving eye health and for slowing and preventing eye disease, from a highly respected optometrist who is the founder of Eye Wellness.

The average American adult spends around ...

Be With

By (author) Mike Barnes
Categories: Health & Fitness

Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four letters drawn from the author’s experience caring for his mother through the stages of Alzheimer’s. In brief takes, meant as sources ...

Neither Married Nor Single

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick’s wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, their lives—and their marriage—would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking account ...

Wait Time

By (author) Kenneth Sherman
Categories: Coping with cancer
Series: Life Writing

Explores the profound connection between disease and creativity in how we cope with illness.

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations ...

Walking Fingers

“It is difficult for recent generations to imagine the fear which ‘infantile paralysis’ or poliomyelitis engendered half a century ago. Epidemics developed throughout the world, generally during ...