by Michael Leppert | Jul 17, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
In his 2010 book, The Last Train From Hiroshima, Charles Pellogrino quotes a survivor of the infamous American bombing of Japan at the end of World War II. The description given was how those who survived did so by taking care of themselves. We often hear stories...
by Michael Leppert | May 29, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life
What do you really know about the 1918 pandemic? Recent events have led me to learn a little about it, and based on my conversations, the little I have learned is measurably more than most. It is bizarre how little we know about what happened only a century ago, in...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 7, 2019 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I ran into a friend on Tuesday night who disagrees with me on gun policy. Plenty of my friends do. Whatever. To keep it fresh, I have new reasons this time. Our gun laws need to be modernized. Most Americans agree. Pew Research published another telling report on the...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 16, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
It has been one of those weeks, like so many other weeks in America. It started off with a big dose of optimism when former First Lady Michelle Obama visited Indianapolis. Her speeches are always positive and always uplifting. I found myself anxiously straining to...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 2, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
How many of us have ever heard of a Canadian doctor named Henri J. Breault? Dr. Breault practiced medicine in Western Ontario and was the leader of a campaign to stop accidental childhood poisonings. Facing an epidemic of these poisonings, he first formed an alliance...
by Michael Leppert | Oct 30, 2017 | Health/Fitness, Pop/Life
Atlanta, Georgia killed my sister Karen. That’s not exactly true, though it is where she spent most of her life and it is where she died. Karen wasn’t anything like the subject of the John Mayer song, “Neon.” Except that she was in Atlanta and that...