Dear Heloise: My design professor in college often said that problems should be thought of as sources of creative ideas! His motto was: "Turn a defect into an effect!" When I recently found bleach spots on a couple of my dark-colored tops, I diluted a little bleach (1:10 with water) and used ...
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2025. There are 308 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 26, 1993, a truck bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than ...
Tomorrow the moon goes dark in the sign of soul, an opportunity to reset. Today is for reflection. If you could wave a magic wand over any relationship in your life and set it back to a completely clean slate, where would you direct that magic? With a little hope and the intent to try again, ...
Dear Annie: I never thought I had a screen time problem until my daughter called me out. The other night, we were sitting on the couch together, and she was excitedly telling me about her day. Without thinking, I picked up my phone to check a notification. She stopped mid-sentence and sighed, ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: My wife and I are planning a three-week trip to South Africa and three other countries nearby. We need to take the antimalaria drug Malarone for 26 days, so we did a trial run of four tablets each. Shortly after our first dose, my wife got very itchy skin on her head, ears and ...
Dear Heloise: I recently bought a dozen eggs, and the yolks were a much deeper yellow -- in fact, an almost orange color. Are they OK to eat, or is something wrong with them? -- Cassie J., Forest Grove, Oregon Cassie, a deeper color of yolk simply means that the hen had a diet high in ...
