Anxious?: win with small steps
Picture yourself driving home at the end of a long day. Beat. So tired that all you’re thinking about is peeling off your clothes and jumping into bed. Feeling your cheek against the pillow. Mmm, it’s gonna feel great.
Suddenly a big red Chevy pickup appears out of nowhere. Makes a left turn in front of you. You’re heading straight toward it. Omigod!
Your Big Dream: Uncover and Cherish It
Have you ever confided a deeply-held dream to a friend or family member, only to have them look at you as if you’d lost your mind? Did you feel deflated? Worse yet, dejected? That’s what ALMOST happened to me last Monday, when I revealed to two different people my intention of becoming a bestselling author and national speaker.
“You’ve got to have a lot of drive,” Marcia murmured, when I revealed my goal, as we talked in front of the elevator, on the third floor of my condominium in Hartford. She had a stricken look on her face. The kind you might have if someone had just announced they were planning to jump off the Empire State Building.
Flu Vaccine Distribution: Ct Ag investigating
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating why Visiting Nurse Associations in Connecticut may receive a disproportionately lower supply of seasonal flu vaccine than others who contracted with a major vaccine supplier.
In a letter to Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc., Blumenthal said he understands that Novartis and other flu vaccine suppliers are experiencing serious production strains, and that some deliveries may be delayed.
Eli Lilly to pay $25 million for improper use of Zyprexa
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced a landmark $25.1 million agreement with drug maker Eli Lilly and Company for allegedly marketing its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses, and concealing the drug’s serious side effects, for more than a decade.
Blumenthal sued Eli Lilly last year for corrupting physicians, pharmacies and administrators at nursing homes and youth detention centers as part of a massive illegal marketing campaign to promote Zyprexa for unapproved off-label uses, including for the treatment of children.
Watchdog Sues Tribune: accuses Courant of violating its written News Mission, by pressure to be nice to major advertisers
As promised, New Haven attorney Joseph Garrison has filed my wrongful termination lawsuit against The Courant, accusing the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper of violating its written News Mission, or what I call its ethics policy, when it fired me last month for refusing to “be nice” to major advertisers.
Through the looking glass: When power shifts, so do the media’s arguments
(In response to loyal reader Kevin’s request) As a media critic, I’m astounded by the way both sides of the U.S. political landscape pick up and put down arguments they were passionate about when they are on the other side. So for example, for eight years, liberals screamed about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]
Travel Tip: get best hotel deals
If you’re anything like me (I hope not!) when you start to plan a trip you focus heavily on the air fares. If I’m off to Vegas, I work the www.kayak.com and www.southwest.com until my fingers are sore — looking to save $10 or $20. And, only later do I remember that I’m very much [...]
Basic Tools for great travel
At the Git-Go, plumbers have their favorite wrenches; carpenters their special hammers; scientists their calculators. The traveler needs to have some basic tools, too, with which to launch any project. We’ll talk in the future about the different values of using a travel agent but for now let’s look at what we can do on [...]
Take the brakes off your life
Take Control: Change Your Life in 17 Minutes How Can You Overcome Your Self-limiting Beliefs? “I can’t promise you’ll be rich,” my new accountant said to me, “but I CAN guarantee you’ll have peace of mind.” That would be a relief. I had crept through the heavy wooden door of Gary Palmer’s office with my [...]
Gratitude: Free way to be happy
I’d never heard of Rodney Rogers before a headline in The New York Times caught my eye: “For Rodney Rogers Rewarding Life and Cruel Turn.”
The article described a talented man whose dad died when Randy was eight and whose mom was in a near-fatal car crash when he was a sophomore in high school. She needed lengthy rehabilitation from injuries that included brain trauma.
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