Fall quarter is coming to an eagerly-anticipated end, as finals begin this week. That means only 1 quarter left of on-campus classes, and only 1 quarter left before we begin our 3rd-year externships. I just keep reminding myself that this is my last holiday away from home, and this time next year, I will be celebrating with family. The ...

After news reports showed the local community reaching out to help, a conscience-riddled burglar who stole two hearing aids belonging to 11-year-old Haley Osmond of Edmonton, Canada, anonymously returned one of them Monday. ''Shows that this guy at least has some conscience to him,'' Const. Jeff Benedict from Edmonton police said in an article in ...

Be careful what you wish for.  It is so easy to see greener grass on the other side.  Often we don't take time to think through the ramifications of our decisions. My seven-year old, Abigail, announced, ''I wish our family only had five people.''  We currently have six, so I was curious who had offended her most grievously.  ...

Hey, all!  Here we are heading toward Thanksgiving and ''all you can eat Turkey Day!''  I crack up when people say, ''Gosh, I feel so tired after Thanksgiving dinner because of all those tryptophans!''  I can't imagine that it just might be from simply eating too much!  But who am I to judge, especially when I am ...

  One of the questions I get asked often is why I remain a COTA, and not further my degree to an OTR. This is a question I ask myself, and as much as the change would be nice sometimes, there are many reasons why I remain a COTA. Of course the educational factor is first. As much as I enjoy school, the things that come with it such as ...

Being a working student, there is always a constant, but delicate, balance between work and school. Today is the 2-week anniversary of my re-entering the working world and, oh, how I missed it! Being unemployed for 3 months certainly has a way of helping you appreciate certain things. It was nice at first to only think about school and ...

Recent research from the University of Rochester Medical Center has shown that crossing a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing results in a strain of mice who have ''golden ears''-meaning they retain great hearing, despite the onset of age. This unlikely result fascinates me, mainly because I can't quite wrap my head around ...

  Hello, everyone!  I hope you are having a great day!  It's so wonderful to know that each day the sun will rise and that once again, we will be provided with opportunities to connect with someone.  Just this morning, I connected with my mom to wish her a Happy Birthday!  We had visited her in Central New York this past ...

Your Life is an Occasion – Rise to It! --Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Edward Magorium in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium If you haven't seen ''Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium,'' you are missing a gem.  I love this movie.  In so many ways, it embodies what this blog is all about:  living life.  To live life well, we have to live it ...

Based in Ann Arbor, MI, The Legacies Project archives self selected memories from the elderly population and categorizes it into videotaped histories.  It began as Jimmy Rhoades recounts a personal experience.  ''My dad was diagnosed with cancer and we were told he had six months to a year to live.  I was in my 20s and still ...