There was a pre-Thanksgiving story on NPR this week about a grateful heart’s being a healthier heart. The conclusion was based on a study, published earlier this year, involving patients with asymptomatic (Stage B) heart failure. Researchers asked patients in one study group to write down three things for which… Read More
Posts Dated Archive: November 2015
Violence and uncertainty
Assault on Paris reverberates Friday night, as Paris was rocked with unimaginable violence, many of us were transported back to those horrible moments of terror in this country on September 11th not so many years ago. Having lived in Washington, D.C., then, I know what it is to feel unsafe… Read More
Always learning from students and alumni
At the car wash and other places Chapel Hill is a small town. It’s small but not too small, intimate but not cloying. Some of the most enjoyable and illuminating conversations I have with faculty, staff, students and alumni are at surprising places. Saturday, I was at the vacuum station… Read More