Rep. Morgan Luttrell, who served as a Navy SEAL, requested the Department of Veterans Affairs create a plan for ecstasy-assisted therapy. Luttrell sent a letter to the agency with Democrat Rep. Morgan McGarvey and it was co-signed by a bipartisan coalition of seven other lawmakers. Luttrell has previously credited psychedelic therapy for saving his life. about Luttrell's
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
The Ghetto-ization Of American Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized. Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto: 1. The residents can't afford to live elsewhere. 2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited and retailers / service providers know residents have no other choice or must go to extraordinary effort to get better quality or a lower price. 3....
Hairballs, also known as trichobezoars, are a common occurrence in cats, especially those with long fur.
According to government data, Americans are saving less these days.
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
A quiet place of reflection on the corner of on Aspen Creek Drive and Rush Drive stands to remember the loudest it ever got. When on April 27, 2014, 190 mph winds leveled nearly every home in the immediate area.
Peloton's Jessie Malone is running a marathon to mark one year since her Apple Watch saved her life by revealing a heart condition she was completely unaware she had. Malone is not just a young and fit woman who exercises regularly, she's a producer for Peloton in New York. Yet as she was cycling home in May 2023, her Apple Watch alerted her that she might have atrial fibrillation. "It was saying you need to seek medical attention immediately," she told Today.com, . "It was red and...
My grandmother told me about the missing notebook. It had a blue cover, she said, and was unmarked except for “cuaderno de trabajo" written in the italicized superscript taught in elementary schools around Mexico. Kept by my grandfather when he labored on farms and orchards in the United States, the notebook recorded where he had worked, how much money he earned and — most important — where that money went. The problem, my grandmother said, was that the “notebook of work” probably had been...
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper transitioned from traffic detail to life-saving measures when he encountered a gunshot victim this past winter.
"Sometimes you start a book and never end it" - a day in the life of 911