Opinion
The bitter-sweet
February is always bittersweet.Six years ago this month, our family suffered a gigantic loss when my sister-in-law died of cancer at the young age of ...
Virus vs. summer vacation plans
Thanks to the continuing threat from Covid-19 and variants of a virus still hanging in the air, plans for a summer vacation are still hanging in the a...
Adjust your expectations
Have you ever had a time when something important to you was planned but did not happen?Maybe you had an idea for a perfect evening with a special fri...
Does Beauty Mean High Maintenance?
Would you like “low maintenance landscaping” in your yard? You could probably reduce landscape maintenance easily, but you may have to cha...
Ice possible; Use caution
At the time, it wasn’t all that funny! It was as if my car wanted to express a little dashboard sarcasm just before I dragged it into a long sno...
Persistence of obesity from childhood
It has long been a contention of mine that the remarkable thing about obesity in childhood is that it goes away much more often than obesity goes away...
Weather grabs the headlines
Extreme weather conditions take over the front page of daily newspapers. Three such blows by nature stick out in my mind, events which I helped cover ...
Having good footing in life
In the First World War soldiers in the trenches on both sides would sometimes give themselves a non-fatal wound (intentionally shooting themselves in ...
Get through the block
The two most dreaded words for a person who writes – writer’s block.It happens to all of us, at least I think it does. I know it happens t...
Another new magic bullet
A new drug, called bimagrumab, in a phase 2 trial,(1) resulted in a more than 20% loss of fat mass while at the same time actually increasing lean bod...
