My life insurance agent, Mike Oling, is a nice man. And as an agent for Northwestern Mutual, a top grade company, he tries to do the right thing. In my case, as a 12-year-leukemia survivor who has extensive disability and term life insurance with Northwestern Mutual, the right thing would be to allow positive changes [...]

Tim Russert was just 58. As the Washington bureau chief of NBC News and host of the very popular “Meet the Press” Sunday television program, he was at the pinnacle of his journalism career in a political year when the news may get white hot and the “scoops” too good to be true. A fatal [...]

I have a Facebook page. It seems to best way to keep up with my 14-year-old daughter even when she is at home.
I have a LinkedIn page at the urging of business associates. I don’t want to be left out.
It’s all part of the “social networking” rage and, as I have thought about it, I [...]

Can Microsoft pull it off when nobody else has before them? Can this technology giant bring together doctors, hospitals and the whole world of health information technology players to allow you to have your up-to-date-, easy-to-use, and secure medical record at your fingertips online? This would allow you to plug in devices to measure your [...]

Isn’t it interesting? Senator Ted Kennedy chose to leave Boston and his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital to have brain surgery today hundreds of miles to the south at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. How come? My guess is the Senator and the Kennedy family did their research and felt most comfortable putting [...]