What Dorothy Said to Toto
In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...
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Dr. Ed
- Jun 26, 2022
- 3 min
What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)
Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...
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Dr. Ed
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
With the World in Chaos, Where Do We Find Solace?
Regardless of what we do for a living or where we live, to some extent we are all connected by the demons of our digital world. According...
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Dr. Ed
- May 20, 2022
- 3 min
In a Heartbeat, Life Unravels
Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...
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Dr. Ed
- Apr 21, 2022
- 6 min
What keeps you up at night?
What do you fear? In your quiet moments. In ancient Rome, when the conquering generals would return to Rome following their victory in...
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Dr. Ed
- Apr 4, 2022
- 3 min
Which road are you taking?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. At the risk of botching a...
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Dr. Ed
- Feb 25, 2022
- 3 min
Just When You Think the World Is Ending, a Kind Act Renews Our Faith in Humankind
The geopolitical chaos of the last several days in Ukraine may well be some of the most significant events of our lifetime as powerful as...
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Dr. Ed
- Feb 11, 2022
- 3 min
How do some people thrive in chaos?
A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...
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Dr. Ed
- Jan 10, 2022
- 4 min
The Queen's Gambit and COVID: Checkmate
An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...
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Dr. Ed
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
Like Rats in a Cage, Are We Witnessing the Collapse of the Healthcare System?
A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...
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Dr. Ed
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
Do I have to draw you a picture?
The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...
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Dr. Ed
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...
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Dr. Ed
- Dec 4, 2021
- 4 min
Riding the COVID roller coaster. Have we reached the “Point of No Return”?
Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...
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Dr. Ed
- Oct 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Unexpected Dinner Guest— A Pitcher in a League of His Own
It’s World Series time. And here is your seasonally appropriate story. We Americans are often intrigued by that athlete, performer, that...
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Dr. Ed
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
Lesson from the Tree Guys: Don't Get Killed
A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...
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Dr. Ed
- Sep 22, 2021
- 3 min
Real People, Not Just a Number
Would You Do This If You Thought You'd Get Cancer? Let us imagine a football stadium. We don’t have to imagine because on any given...
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Dr. Ed
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Not the Spam You Think
Some Divisions Never Heal (and Why We Need to Put Our Differences Aside Now) Austin, Minnesota, was, in the 1980s, a rural community...
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Dr. Ed
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
How to Find Meaning and Purpose during a Pandemic in a Most Unexpected Way
Stevie has the personality, the looks, the anatomy, the architecture to be, without question, a winning performer. She has the right...
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Dr. Ed
- Aug 10, 2021
- 3 min
It's Not 'Game Over' with This Deadly Pandemic
We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...
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Dr. Ed
- Jul 30, 2021
- 4 min
Troubled Times Call for a Declaration of Independence
Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...
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