2025
7 Quick Questions With Heart Valve Specialist John Saxon
As a structural and interventional cardiologist, John T Saxon, MD, helps patients who need heart procedures to fix conditions like leaky heart valves and treat certain adult congenital heart diseases. He’s also co-director of the UVA Health’s Advanced Cardiac Valve Center. If you have heart valve disease, the idea of a major open-heart surgery can be […]
9 Things That Are Working for Me This Summer
Summer has never been my favorite season – growing up in Las Vegas and then spending most of my adult life in Arizona and Texas, summer was the season you survived, not something to look forward to. But now summer really IS my favorite season. I love the more relaxed schedule, the magical Utah summer […]
How to Avoid Almond Mom Tendencies in 5 Steps
Ever since learning about the almond mom category, I’ve grown more aware of my relationship to food. I’ve started thinking of food, not in terms of how many calories it has, but about how much energy it will give me and how it will make my body feel. I’ve noticed how much I worry about […]
How to Bedazzle a Book Cover
This summer, my children’s lit book club had a book bedazzling night and it was SO fun! Frankly, I’m not very crafty so I wasn’t sure if it would be particularly fun for me, but then I loved it so much that I immediately came home and ordered bedazzle supplies for my kids to do […]
Are You at Risk of a SCAD Heart Attack?
No one thinks of the heart as a sex organ. Nor should they; it isn’t one. But it’s also true that biological sex impacts the kinds of heart issues and symptoms people experience. That is, women often have symptoms that don’t typically come with heart disease. And when it comes to spontaneous coronary artery dissection […]
35+ Children’s Books Made into Movies
We have family Friday movie night almost every week and have for nearly five years – it’s such a fun way to kick off the weekend! We have homemade pizza and then pile on our super-cozy big (not Intstagram-worthy) couch in the basement and watch a movie. Usually with a treat. It’s one of our […]
How to Make the Right Choice
Most people know that brand-name drugs often have generic counterparts. We also know that generic drugs cost less than the brand-name versions. Of course, everyone wants to save money. But this is your health we’re talking about. So, the question about brand-name vs. generic drugs is: Are they the same thing? In a nutshell, the […]
Book Deals for a Summer Weekend
This has been a busy week with the Prime Day sale but happily the deals I care most about are still going on! You can still get 3 free months of Audible, 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited (which includes a free audiobook listen every month!) and 3 free months of Kindle Unlimited. Make […]
7 Quick Questions With Kidney Transplant Doctor Jeanne Kamal
As a transplant nephrologist, Jeanne Kamal, MD, helps patients who need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a treatment option for kidney failure, which can happen because of diabetes, repeated infections, high blood pressure, or polycystic kidney disease. A transplant can sometimes help people live longer than treatment with dialysis. Meet a Kidney Transplant […]
These are the best things to do on a long car ride!
Whether you’re just looking for activity books for kids to keep them entertained at home during the summer or searching for things to do on a long car ride, every activity book on this list has been a hit in our family! I don’t LOVE road trips but we end up doing a fair amount […]