Dear Heloise: For years, I've been using various kitchen tools to help me in the kitchen and do jobs that they weren't originally designed for. I thought I'd share some of these with you and your readers: -- I use a tea strainer filled with herbs and spices to flavor soups and stews. You just ...
Today is Friday, April 4, the 94th day of 2025. There are 271 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death triggered a wave ...
The cosmic situation with Saturn, Uranus and Mars speaks to identity. If it is true that we are always in flux, always becoming, never finished, then there is no fixed self. And if there is no fixed self, then failure does not stain us and success does not crown us. Perhaps this is more freeing ...
Dear Annie: When our sons married and left home, my husband and I decided to make sure our sons and their families would never have to choose who to visit on any holiday. We also wanted to make sure that we got to see all of our extended family members during the holidays. So, we announced that ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a generally healthy 60-year-old man. Last week, I had some abdominal cramping, and while I was on the toilet, I noted the abrupt onset of a strange feeling in my chest as well as abnormal, irregular and fast heartbeats. My watch has an electrocardiogram (EKG) function, and ...
Dear Heloise: I love reading your column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A recent letter in which the reader talked about using leftovers to make soup made me chuckle as I've always done this. My family, however, is less delicate and has always called mine "garbage pail soup." They also know ...
