Palm Springs has a population of well-educated residents, many with a cultural or entertainment background, and gets a huge number of visitors who are there expressly to loaf. And yet for a decade, the city had nowhere to buy a book. “You have tourists coming here literally to read by the pool!” Paul Carr exclaims. “It’s a rare fail of the cultural and capitalist systems at the same time. It’s madness. How do you not have a bookstore?” Carr and wife Sarah Lacy responded last fall by opening a bookstore, the only one in Palm Springs. Its cheeky name: The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs. “No one can argue with us,” Carr points out. I learned about the store from...
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— No one goes to a doctor or a hospital expecting to come out worse than when they went in. Unfortunately, sometimes that is precisely what happens. When it does, it’s not just a health setback—it’s a matter of medical negligence. One of the states where this issue is quite prevalent is Indiana. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll discuss how victims of medical malpractice in Indiana can rebuild their lives after such traumatic incidents. Rebuilding your life after medical negligence can feel like trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. How do you move on from such a catastrophic event? How do you regain your lost health, emotional stability, and financial balance? In Indiana, there are paths...
Greg Richardson poses with 15 of his children, their spouses and grandchildren at his daughter’s wedding in October 2021. Four of Greg’s children and two of his grandchildren are not in the photo.Meredith Roberts “There was an overwhelming sense that I just wanted to do something to help. ... When you see something like that, cages on walls and firehoses for ‘bathing,’ I knew we just couldn’t turn away ... we couldn’t ignore it. We needed to do something to help.”When I asked my husband, Greg, about his experience with our first adoption, and the impetus behind me getting on a plane and heading to Romania, this is what he told me. He remembered things that I did not. When...
The connection between your heart health and brain health is underscored in a recent study. We know heart attacks can take an immediate toll on our cardiovascular system, and potentially a long-term toll as well. Now new research is highlighting another part of the body that may be affected: our brains. An extensive study published in JAMA Neurology suggests a connection between heart attacks and cognitive decline. The data was drawn from six smaller studies that ran for various lengths of time, and followed a total of 30,465 people with no history of heart attack, stroke or dementia. Researchers assessed each person’s cognitive function by measuring memory, global cognition and executive function. They also evaluated these metrics after any heart attacks that...
