Over the holidays, John and I were pulling our boat down the interstate. Then, boom! A tire blew out on the boat trailer. We drove about half a football field before there was enough room off the shoulder to safely pull over.
I moved to Alexander City five years ago. Since that time, I have gained 20 pounds. And I blame Angie Strickland, our registration clerk at the Cancer Center, who bakes a cake for everyone’s birthday – that’s about 25 cakes a year – and augm…
Let’s talk about the hot toys for kids this Christmas. Toys tend to follow the trends in tech, and when I started looking into what’s big for 2025, I was genuinely impressed but also happy to see the classics were still out there!
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I really remember my 10th birthday. I was turning “double digits,” having a “spend the night” party with friends, and my parents gifted me tickets to my first concert: Hootie and the Blowfish. The concert was actually on my real birthday, September 1, 1995, and it was at the old Oak Mountain…
I’m going to write to you one more time about cervical cancer. I promise this is the last time, at least for 2025. But I feel compelled to talk to you about it again, because cervical cancer is a big deal.
A donor-advised fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows individuals, families or corporations to make charitable contributions, receive an immediate tax deduction, and then recommend grants to charities over time. DAFs are administered predominantly by financial institutions, such as…
Have you ever received an urgent text asking for personal information? If so, you’re not alone. In 2024, Alabama residents reported over 7,800 cyber-enabled crime and fraud incidents, resulting in more than $100 million in losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Finan…
I met Joe in the fall of 1982. I had moved to Atlanta to attend seminary and was a bit homesick for Tuscaloosa. Joe was a year ahead of me and was cool, in a Matthew McConaughey, redneck sort of way. Joe grew up in Panama City and played college baseball. In fact, that’s how he lost his two …
This year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting was unlike any other. For the 60th time, Warren Buffett took the stage in Omaha, drawing thousands from all corners of the globe. But this year, there was a bittersweet undertone: Buffett announce…
Doubtless you’ve heard the news by now that computed tomography scans cause cancer. Like other news published in medical journals, then reported by the news media and subsequently going viral on social media, the information is often stripped…
Whether you’ve lived in central Alabama for five or 25 years, you likely have a tornado story to tell. Anyone who knows me personally knows how much I respect the weather. Each spring and fall, our community braces for severe weather. While w…
I just turned 64 years old. Next year, I’ll have my “Welcome to Medicare” initial wellness examination, complete with an array of preventive testing. I didn’t wait to turn 65 to do my cancer screening tests, and neither should you.
Recently, I wrote an article about having a crystal ball and making accurate market predictions at the beginning of each year. This is a hard thing to do, and my article went on to reference some of Wall Street’s top firms’ forecasts for 2024…
Two people have died from measles in the United States this year, one in Texas and the other in New Mexico. Both were unvaccinated. As of the end of last month, there were 483 confirmed cases of measles in 2025, surpassing all of 2024’s total…
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 30 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN ALABAMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 20 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
BIBB BLOUNT CALHOUN
CHAMBERS CHEROKEE CHILTON
CLAY CLEBURNE COOSA
ETOWAH FAYETTE JEFFERSON
PICKENS RANDOLPH SHELBY
ST. CLAIR TALLADEGA TALLAPOOSA
TUSCALOOSA WALKER
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALABASTER, ALEXANDER CITY,
ALICEVILLE, ANNISTON, ASHLAND, BIRMINGHAM, BRENT, CARROLLTON,
CENTRE, CENTREVILLE, CLANTON, COLUMBIANA, FAYETTE, GADSDEN,
HEFLIN, HOOVER, JACKSONVILLE, JASPER, LANETT, LINEVILLE, MOODY,
ONEONTA, PELHAM, PELL CITY, ROANOKE, ROCKFORD, SYLACAUGA,
TALLADEGA, TUSCALOOSA, AND VALLEY.
With a couple of months under our belts in 2025, it seems Alabama residents have a more positive outlook for what this year will offer. Economic indicators in our state, such as stable inflation and low unemployment rates, offer reasons for o…
Many of you have been reading my medical news articles. Others of you probably wrap fish with them. Most of you are wondering, who is this enigmatic person, this George Miranda fellow? So this month, I thought I would pull back the curtain to…
Remember COVID-19? I know, you’re trying to forget. But I wonder if you remember the silver lining: almost nobody got the flu because we were all wearing masks, washing our hands and keeping social distance.
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Russell Medical has teamed up with Operation WIPEOUT Cervical Cancer, because with vaccinations and early detection and treatment of precancerous lesions, we can strive to achieve for cervical cance…
The start of a new year brings fresh opportunities and challenges, making it the perfect time to take control of your finances. Managing your money can empower you; it puts you in charge of your future and goals.
The below article was written in December 2020. I thought it was worth republishing. Today, the DJIA is sitting just shy of 45,000. In a short period of time, the rate of change has been 50 percent. Markets are hard to predict, if not impossi…
