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 ...
One is an event. Two starts a pattern. The social Gemini moon illuminates patterns of human behavior. Automatic reactions are signs of character. Motivations, moves and manipulations also come to light. Understanding people's reasons and patterns makes us better predictors of behavior, which ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: Would you recommend the most reliable literature source(s) for vitamin and supplement information and interactions? For instance, health magazines give these examples of supplement information: -- Take magnesium with vitamin D3 for best absorption. -- Do not take magnesium ...
Even though we know that life is about the journey, sometimes we still really want to get to a certain destination as soon as possible. It's a good indicator that something could be better -- perhaps the transportation, our choice of travel companions or the road conditions. The Mars/Saturn ...
Dear Annie: I'm writing in response to the letter from "Brokenhearted Grandma," whose husband grew angry and controlling over time. Reading about what has happened in her family brought back memories of what happened in my own family. After 20 years of marriage, my husband also became angry, ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a 71-year-old male in excellent health, and I don't take any medications. Recently, after experiencing mild headaches, mild muscle aches, a runny nose, sneezing, coughing and a sore throat, I went to an urgent care facility near me to find out which of the viruses I had been ...