by Maureen | May 17, 2021 | Personal
Tired of ZOOMing all the time? The combination of video meetings and working from home has not only blurred the line between our home and office lives, it’s created a new phenomenon called Virtual Meeting Fatigue (VMF). VMF is the feeling of exhaustion after attending...
by Maureen | Apr 22, 2021 | Personal
Let’s start with one of the scarier myths I’ve seen. MYTH: The CV19 vaccine can affect female fertility. FACT: The CV19 vaccine will not affect fertility. This vaccine enables the body to create “copies” of the spike protein found in the CV surface. The vaccine...
by Maureen | Mar 11, 2021 | Personal
I have a love-hate relationship with St. Patrick’s Day. Despite the dizzying number of free drink offers I receive, and all the people in the world who use St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse to get freshman-year-in-college drunk, what I love is that I can celebrate a...
by Maureen | Jan 8, 2021 | Personal
There were 111 COVID-related deaths on January 7th, 2021. My uncle was one of them. But this is not about COVID; this is about one man who made a difference in Long Beach, NY – the city by the sea. Anthony “Gigi” Perretta was the kind of man you didn’t forget. When...
by Maureen | Nov 20, 2020 | Personal
Thanksgiving is next week, officially marking the start of the holiday season. But everything is different this year. We’ll be smaller groups gathering, and along with the scent of crisp turkey slow cooking on the oven, is anxiety. Those of us with school-age...
by Maureen | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
After the better part of a year spent social distancing, wearing masks, using hand sanitizer throughout the day, quarantining, and the general restlessness to return to normal life, “pandemic fatigue” is becoming the pandemic within a pandemic. How can we distinguish...
by Maureen | Oct 1, 2020 | Personal
The brain is an amazing thing. Our brains are processing information constantly at warp speed. That’s the energy you are receiving. How you think about and process that information is the energy you communicate. I cite Masuro Emoto’s study of water in my book, Happy...
by Maureen | Sep 18, 2020 | Personal
Educators, parents, and schools are adjusting to the new reality of remote learning. While this presents pros and cons across the board, the very real threat of cyber-bullying has been pushed to the backseat, and arranging home schools and learning pods are at the...
by Maureen | Sep 10, 2020 | Personal
First published by New York Newsday, September 18, 2001 The assault on America has left us horrified: the grieving faces, missing-person signs, footage of our imploding towers. E-mailed news of a candlelight vigil spread as quickly as the fired burned up a once...
by Maureen | Aug 21, 2020 | Personal
I try to always look through a lens of hope and positivity, and while I can usually find the light, even in the darkest hours, the COVID-imposed isolation can have devastating effects on the brain. The populations that are suffering the most are the elderly, as well...
