Exploring my physician-dad’s small medical book collection in Monmouth Beach one day, I found an oddly titled book, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...

Cancer, you could say, runs in my family. It took my mother at age 61. My brother (55) and sister (61) are currently battling...

My siblings often tell me that I tend to over-glorify my physician-dad and his life. Perhaps … but I’m a storyteller and my father...

Every now and again when I felling a bit down, I’ll break out one of my family’s old home movies. I’ve learned that you...

Since the recent post on my Uncle George Sheehan got such a good response, I thought I’d offer another: I was going through some...

There’s no question that earning a medical degree takes some smarts. My physician-dad from Monmouth Beach would tell me that the profession was often...

“More Americans than ever before are stressed, depressed and anxiety-ridden,” according to a new study in the journal Psychiatric Services. No surprise. There’s a...

Another NFL season is with us  and thank goodness for that. Pro football is fasting becoming my favorite sport to follow. For this football...

When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education (as if he...

For many years during his prime as a physician, my father sat on the board of our local bank’s loan approval committee (then the...