At various points in her life, Adela Justice has spent her days working as a librarian and her evenings playing electric bass in bands and volunteering as a Texas reserve deputy. Sometimes she’s also juggled full- and part-time jobs in different libraries.

Justice, a senior librarian at The Learning Center, has a simple explanation for why she’s often kept such a hectic schedule.

“I learned it from my mom. She was a nurse...

In the summer of 2014, my family and I were on vacation in Italy. Each morning for almost two weeks, I woke up with a terrible headache. They felt a lot like the sinus headaches I’d had since I was a teenager, but none of the routine medications helped.

My wife and I decided to wait until we got home to Texas to see if the headache came from allergies or the hard Italian pillows. But when I continued to wake up with the same headache...