A recent New York Times story reports the battle that people who suffer with eating disorders are fighting: insurance company wars. I was stunned to read the following: "An estimated 11 million Americans, mostly young women, suffer from eating disorders…These disorders, particularly anorexia, have the…
The couple who took their 3-week-old baby on a little journey through a corn maze - and stayed lost - have attained national attention. The couple ended up calling 911 to be rescued. But their brief maze in the maize gave radio talk shows a…
Our EndNotes column alternates on Tuesdays in the S-R with Dr. Alisa Hideg, a family medicine physician at Group Health’s Riverfront Medical Center. In this week's column, Dr. Hideg tells readers of her breast cancer diagnosis and debuts her bald look - a result of…
Albert D. Rosellini, who served as Washington's governor from 1957 to 1965, died Monday in Seattle after complications of pneumonia. He had turned 101 in January. "He was a trusted mentor and beloved friend, and the countless lives he touched, including mine, may be his…
Our class reunion – minus Becky – called a group of us to California where we laughed, reminisced, and discussed what middle-age people discuss: jobs, kids, lovely grandkids and a few aches and pains: “What do you take for your blood pressure? “ I overheard.…
In Chicago today and just walked by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the city's financial district. There are at least 100 protestors, many dressed in business clothes, a huge drum that several beat, police and bystanders everywhere. It has the feel of a true…
Cathy and I talked by phone today. She's in California at a reunion of our GU in Florence class. I couldn't go this year because of a family commitment that's important to me. Our GU class reunites every five years and I call the experience…
Steve Jobs, Apple guru, was 56 when he died. Cathy and I are both 56. When people your same age die, no matter your age, it almost always brings up issues of mortality. Jobs, along with Bill gates of Microsoft, are the Thomas Edisons of…
Roger Ailes, creator of Fox News, looked back on the cable channel's 15-year success in a recent interview. Here's my favorite line from the 71-year-old Ailes: "I just went to my doctor and he said, 'Other than arthritis, your chart reads like a 40-year-old's. You're…
Leonard Nimoy, who played the emotion-less alien, Mr. Spock, in Star Trek has annouced his retirement from the Star Trek convention circuit. I've been a big "Star Trek" fan since seventh grade when the original series came out, despite my sister telling me a few…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports today that adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010. That's 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day. That means, according to CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden that, "nearly…
After four years in prison, Amanda Knox is coming home after her conviction was overturned today on an appeal. Our blog and EndNotes column deal with grief, loss, illness and suffering. Amanda has suffered through all of these life experiences - while locked up for…
Each morning, my email is filled with press releases and stories from medical, elderly and death and dying sources, because of this blog. Many of the medical websites offer summaries of research on how to keep healthier, longer. But it can drive you crazy figuring…
When 67-year-old David Lavau drove away from home, he had his cell phone turned on, a decision that saved his life. After missing for six days, his children, relentless in their effort to find their missing father, followed information that a sheriff's detective provided: the…
When I go to the grocery store with my 90-year-old mother, I always make her put her cart ahead of me in line so I don't watch strangers get exasperated with her as she counts out her money. (I get exasperated with her but try…
The Amanda Knox appeals trial will soon yield its verdict: will her conviction be overturned, allowing her to come home to Seattle? When I was a woman of 20, I spent a year in Florence, Italy, as a college student. Our class of American students,…
My great-nephew, Matthew, will turn 16 in two weeks. On his Facebook page, he wrote: "I'm older than Google!" A friend of his same age wrote back: "Tell your grandkids that one day. They won't believe it!" Matt was born in 1995. Google, according to…
Any The Big C fans out there? Paul, the wife of the main character (who has terminal cancer) dies of a heart attack in the Showtime season ender, which aired Monday. As a death and dying issues blogger, I love the series for its interesting…
Quitting can lengthen your life, lessen health woes and make you smell better, too. And today, yet one more reason from HealthDay. It may help improve your everyday memory. The team at Northumbria University in Newcastle, the United Kingdom, gave memory tests to 27 smokers,…
We continue to read about them each week – soldiers killed in Afghanistan. It is good to pause, to honor, to read their story and hold their loved ones in our hearts. Sgt. Tyler Holtz, 22, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment,…
Sinead O’Connor, the singer who once tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while on Saturday Night Live, has threatened to shoot Pope Benedict if he visits Ireland, according to CathNewsUSA. Her friends worry about her mental health. Wonder if she'll get the…
John Kaplan, the subject of my Sunday story, took a photo early in his career in Spokane (around 1982 or 1983) of a man in a bunny costume (selling doughnuts on Easter Sunday). During his break, the man removed the bunny head and smoked a…
In my Sunday story today, John Kaplan, a former Spokesman-Review photographer, talks about the documentary he's made detailing his cancer journey. The University of Florida photojournalism professor told me he told himself he would quit photographing, and videotaping, the journey if it started not to…
Our boomer generation is again making headlines as we become grandparents: The newer grandparents are still working, with greater disposable income and now make up 1 in 4 adults. And more than ever, grandparents are once again parents - to their grandchildren - either offering…
This past week at work, I spent about one quarter of my time on Spokesman-Review website work, blogging, facebooking and tweeting. And three quarters of my time on print product work, interviewing, writing and working on stories that will appear in our newspaper this weekend…
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
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