About two weeks ago, I started having pain from a pinched axillary nerve in my right shoulder. (File it under “mediocre once-college athlete still competing in things in which he has no business competing”) At times, the pain has been pretty bad…

Pandemics can serve to remind us how interconnected we are as human beings. In 1918 and 1919, with American involvement in World War I ramping up and then quickly ending, huge population shifts worldwide led to the dissemination of a horrific novel influenza virus that ended up killing some 50 million people worldwide, including 675,000 Americans…

A few years ago in Center City Philadelphia, a man was walking on the sidewalk along South Broad Street when an out-of-control taxi jumped the curb, struck and killed him.

Maybe you remember this. If so, your response to the news was probably shock, sadness, and empathy for his loved ones. However, I doubt very much…