Healthy Living By Carl Hendrickson July. The seventh month of the year. The month named after Julius Caesar. The month in which we celebrate the founding of our great nation and contemplate all the...

Marc Garcia plays the trumpet at a ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary. Photo by Bill Milligan. By Carl Hendrickson For the Call I stood at attention, with my back straight, or as straight...

Healthy Living By Carl Hendrickson We are the survivors. We put on our country’s uniform, ready to face death. We are the ones who came home. This month, however, we honor those who did not survive,...

Healthy Living  By Carl Hendrickson March is in like a lion. It was named after Mars, the Roman god of war, and was viewed as the beginning of the season for warfare. This is also the month of...

Healthy Living by Carl Hendrickson We now are in the second month of a new year. Have you begun working on new goals for this year? In past articles, I have suggested as a goal to write your story...

By Carl Hendrickson It’s that time of year – the black hole between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The time we dread. That time to purchase presents as stores are crowded and shoppers and clerks become...

Healthy Living by Carl Hendrickson Christmas 1964. I was a senior in law school at St. Louis University. She was teaching in the Lindbergh School District. Over the Christmas holiday, on Dec. 30, we...

Labor Day. The end of summer.  The beginning of school. Or, at least it was when I was young.  I’m sure many of you remember not starting school until after Labor Day. Now that summer has ended...

"Healthy Living" by Carl Hendrickson For the Call I’m sure you’ve noticed, as have I, that some friends look and act a decade older than their actual age, while others seem to age slowly, looking...

By Carl Hendrickson For the Call This week we celebrated the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America. There are four incredible...