Category: Health and Wellness

It was one very weird August in 2005, let me tell you.

My wife and I, plus our three kids, had just moved into a new house in northeast Ascension Parish. I can clearly remember  walking through it (we had been living in an apartment during construction). Even with everything we owned already moved in, it felt really BIG. And empty.

“We’ll never fill this place up!” I remember thinking. Have I ever been more wrong. Read more

My longtime Straight Talk readers may remember that just a few years ago, we were discussing medical marijuana. I gave you the Straight Talk on the latest state and federal developments on when medical marijuana is permitted, went over some of the pros and cons, and described many of the unknowns (and there were plenty!) that must be factored into making something like cannabis use covered by your health insurance. Read more

Oh, yes, the headlines were blaring at me recently: “New research shows the United States’ healthcare system came in LAST compared to the 10 best in the world!”

Of course, me being me, I couldn’t let THAT stand without digging into the details. Read more

I’m a big person.

Big, that is, in body. At 62 years old, I’m about 6 feet tall and weigh around 290 lbs. In BMI terms, around 40. That’s obese, morbidly obese, dangerously obese, you name it. Read more

I’m constantly amazed by how many of my friends are so particular about the maintenance they do on their cars. Or their boats. Or their homes.

Let’s face it, these assets cost a fortune to fix when something breaks. If you can head off those bigger costs by regularly spending a little bit of time and money on preventive maintenance, it makes good sense to do so. And so we do. Read more

Next time you are hanging around with a group of friends, maybe enjoying some crawfish or an LSU baseball game or some adult beverages, ask how COVID-19 affected them. Not to bring down the whole group’s mood, but to hear their shared experiences. Read more