You may have read that the Social Security Trust Fund is due to be depleted in 2033, a year earlier than previous projections. Of course, most people—including reporters—don’t understand how the Social Security Trust Fund actually works.

Have your kids ever asked you a question that you don’t know the answer to? And if they did, you can bet it wasn’t about mathematics or history, but something only a child would wonder about, like: do snails have teeth?

Did you know that almost 50% of Americans make resolutions annually? But for all the good intentions, only a fraction of us keep our resolutions. So how can we narrow the gap between good intentions and real results?

You might wonder what you get in return for your tax dollars. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see an assessment of the services that we get from our federal taxes, vs. what we could get if we simply paid for them on our own?

In this day and age, it seems like reading is becoming a thing of the past. But a growing body of scientific literature suggests that reading actual books may be more important than we realize. It’s a way to continuously rewire your brain to remember details and think through complex problems.

Dr. Robert (Bob) Mason started practicing medicine in June of 1954 as the first doctor in the central Missouri rural recreational community known as Lake of the Ozarks. Sometime during 1967 he became my family’s doctor. In April of 1985 he became my father-in-law.