Shay 
We are living in deeply unsettling and downright scary times. For younger Americans, particularly those of us under 60, we have never experienced anything like what is going on in our country. Despite knowing what was possible under a second Trump term, to see progress that we assumed would last forever being brutally, systematically, and …
It has been almost 21 years since my mother died and I still remember that night as if it were yesterday. My mother was in a nursing home after brain surgery had taken a turn for the worse. It was the early 00s and cell phone technologies weren’t what they are now. My father had …
As someone who was diagnosed with hypertension almost two years ago, part of me maintaining healthy blood pressure is to do a home check several times a week and keep track of it. I’m on the lowest dose of hypertension medication possible, a choice I made to force me to stay compliant with the changes …