Things I’ve Forgotten About Cycling Today I completed a beach-life rite of passage: I used my bicycle as transportation on an actual road with cars. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t used a bike as transportation in about a dozen years. I got myself a beach cruiser from a Read More

Is Cat Poop Dangerous? I like to browse health news from time to time, looking to bring you all stories that are close to your lives and affect you as my readers. Let me tell you, the health world is a rapidly changing network of modern miracles and borderline science fiction Read More

Avoid Lawn Mower Injuries This Summer Grass is into high growing gear, prompting homeowners everywhere to pull out the mower in hopes of cutting order into their lawns. That means that emergency departments begin seeing more injuries caused by this most familiar piece of Read More

Make Or Break Holiday Festivities by Staying Hydrated The Fourth is nearly here, and we’ll all be spending it in our own way. Whether you’re on the Mall, at a backyard BBQ, on the beach or hiking the Appalachian Trail, there’s one thing we all need to have a happy Fourth — Read More

Don’t Let Healthful Eating Go on Vacation The kids are out of school, the weather’s getting warmer and for many of us that means road trip! Unfortunately, when we’re traveling, it’s easy to fall into the habit of sending our healthy eating habits on vacation, too. Jacklyn Van Read More

How to Play it Safe in the Surf As some of you who follow my writing may know, I am a diehard Beach Bunny. You wouldn’t know it from looking at me – a lifetime in D.C. has equipped me with a wardrobe of black suits and button down shirts, but I can be happy wearing black at the Read More