Everyone has an Everest...Karen's is losing weight.

"Everyone has an Everest...Karen's is losing weight. (I planned to write, well, finish and post, my thoughts on Mallory & Irvine's summit day today, but it needs a bit more work, and frankly I've been swamped. So, that'll have to wait till next week. But, in the...

Courage To Come Back Awards: Citizen Journalist Awarded!

The Courage To Come Back Awards are a provincial thing here in BC, where people are honoured for … you guessed it: their courage to come back from adversity in their lives. Orato.com's own Trisha Baptie is being recognized with the award in the social-adversity...

Fear Hinders Black Marrow Donation: Tuskegee Experiments' Legacy

Once bitten, twice shy, as they say."In 1982, transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender and his colleagues sat down to took a look at African-American organ donation numbers, and they were grim. While blacks represented about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they represented...

Weighing in on Early Retirement

"Tom and Mary Wilson (ages 55 and 53, respectively) know how to deal with adversity. She is in her fifth year of remission from breast cancer and he just learned last fall that he has early-stage leukemia. If managing their health issues weren't enough, now they are faced...