Before You Take That Pill

Astral Shell

By Doug Bremner On May 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

On October 4, 2008, the author and his siblings held a ceremony where they placed a tombstone they had purchased over the burial site of their mother, who died in 1966.

A few weeks after the ceremony, I got an email from the husband of one of my [...]

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‘A Fresh Look at Greed’ Free Book Giveaway Ends in Two Days

By Doug Bremner On May 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

[update: Goodreads giveaway completed on May 16, 2013]

A Fresh Look at Greed.

Greed is a much-maligned quality these days. People have forgotten that greed is what made this country great. People complain too much about the widening gap between the haves and have nots. It should be bigger! Ladies, do you want [...]

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 3

By Doug Bremner On May 14, 2013 · Leave a Comment

In the previous part of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. After I had found my mother’s biological relatives and my wife and I went to meet them, I felt there was something still missing. I spent [...]

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Great Review for ‘The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth: How Genealogy Captured America’

By Doug Bremner On May 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Reviews of The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth

K. Peil
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Take this ride, you will love it.”
“He’s done it again. This page turner will fire the soul of anyone with an investigative
mind and a human heart. Fully readable and entertaining, [...]

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 2

By Doug Bremner On May 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

In the last post (“

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 1

By Doug Bremner On May 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly of meningitis (see here for the story) when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just [...]

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Grief, It’s Complicated. Or I Shall Say Goodbye Till it be Morrow

By Doug Bremner On May 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

OK, I (partially) stole the title of this posting from another posting about a paper in Psychology Today about complicated grief and bereavement, how it doesn’t respond to antidepressant medications, and how it is important to incorporate the loss at a dead level of meaning.

OK, I meant deeper level of [...]

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Have You Seen This Soldier?

By Doug Bremner On May 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Since I wrote my post on “A Brief History of Bastards” the letters have been pouring in with readers telling me about their own bastard stories. Well we haven’t been sitting idle here at the Drug News and Health Safety Blog either. In fact, one of us has been asking the question, has [...]

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Facebook is Greedy and Won’t Let Me Know Who Liked My Page

By Doug Bremner On May 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Facebook is greedy and won’t let me know who liked the page for my book Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May be Bad For Your Health. That’s too bad, because my experience is that people who have read my books would [...]

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A Failsafe Way to Make Money $$

By Doug Bremner On May 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Hey, I’ve got a quick get-rich scheme for ya. Come up with a company that’s based on an internet web site where no one understands what you are doing, and tell them that it’s hard to explain because you are on the cutting edge. When you don’t make any profits for company, just start waving [...]

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