Health

If you’re new here, you may not know that our 11-year-old son has food allergies and asthma. Those two conditions often go hand in hand from an immunology perspective. Thanks to his pediatrician, we’ve been able to manage both conditions with only a few hiccups. A.J. has never been sent …

Overall, I’m a healthy over-40 Black woman, but I’ve had my share of health challenges. I had a demanding, high-stress TV news career for almost 15 years where I worked long hours, covered tragedies like Hurricane Katrina, deadly house fires, and murders. (Whew! I don’t know how I faced those …

One of the biggest lessons I learned once we got married was that the fridge’s contents were always in flux. When you’re single, you know what’s in your fridge 24/7. You expect to look inside your fridge and see everything you bought sitting there like you left it. Once you …

Most people in the world right now are unfortunately stressed out. Although it is really hard to go from a stressed-out state to a state where you feel totally in control, it is possible to regain control. You just have to put in the hard work to figure out how …

Most summers I seem to get through May & June just fine. Until last week when my eyes were red (or as A.J. described them – pink) and itchy for three days. I skipped the mascara and eye makeup to limit my discomfort. There’s nothing worse than smeared eye makeup …