Voices

10,000 Voice is about having a place to deposit your thoughts and feelings, it offers sharing of my personal journey with my own mother since March 2021. This book offers a chance to be real with what we feel, what’s happening before our eyes or happened in the past as a caretaker so we can get thru it and not stuck in it. It gives health tips to care for yourself first so that you are not lost in the journey!

On August 31st, 2019, Boston reluctantly hosted its first Straight Pride parade. The parade’s organizers aimed to raise awareness about the issues impacting America’s heterosexual community -- the “oppressed majority.”

The main reasons the number of Covid cases is soaring once again in the United States: vaccine hesitancy and refusal, lead to hospitalizations and death. “It’s hard to watch the pandemic drag on as Americans refuse the vaccine in the name of freedom,” he says. Seeking understanding, Mr. Stockton travels to Mountain Home, Ark., in the Ozarks, a region with galloping contagion and — not unrelated — abysmal vaccination rates. He finds that a range of feelings and beliefs underpins the low rates — including fear, skepticism, and a libertarian strain of defiance. This doubt even extends to the staff at a regional hospital, where about half of the medical personnel are not vaccinated — even while the intensive care unit is crowded with unvaccinated Covid patients fighting for their lives.

A Black Health Care Professional discusses her journey through Covid-19 and how the HealthCare Systems underserved people of color by not listening.