Climbing into the far reaches of one’s family tree can be a dicey endeavor. I mention this to the husband, but he has already scrambled past a major fork, scaled 15 branches and is inspecting an obscure limb several hundred years old. I don’t think he can hear me.
The cover story in the May 21 Time magazine is all about “why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extremes —and how Dr. Bill Sears became their guru.” That is the article’s subtitle. All I can say, somewhat hopefully, is “at last.”
For first-time dads, a book of tips could be the perfect Father’s Day gift. As June 17 approaches, here are some ideas: • “What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding” (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2012) is a lighthearted month-to-month pregnancy guide by veteran dad Thomas Hill. He focuses on the care of a pregnant wife with tips such as what to buy for baby and what not to say during labor.
Q. I’ve used milk of magnesia to clear up poison ivy. I used to get poison ivy all over after clearing the weeds and grass from my mowers in the Texas winds. I had to go to the doctor for a steroid shot to clear it up.
Back in Wheatfield for first time since November
Q. I was a nanny last summer, and one day we were in the kids’ backyard. Their dog knocked a yellow jacket down, but it was still alive. Unaware of this, I walked on the deck where the yellow jacket was lying upside down. I stepped on it and immediately went down. My foot and calf swelled up within seconds, and I found it hard to breathe.
A support group for the wives of those with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia will be held at 5 p.m. today at Alzheimer’s Association of WNY, 2805 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville. For more information, call 626-0600.
They’re among the earliest known foods. Archaeological evidence suggests that tree nuts were a major part of the human diet 780,000 years ago. Several varieties of nuts, along with the stone tools necessary to crack them open, have been found buried deep in bogs in the Middle East. Rich in energy and loaded with nutrients, nuts and, particularly, their cargo of omega-3 fatty acids are thought to have been essential to the evolution of the large, complex human brain.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Margie Warden is walking. It’s 4:45 a.m., and even some of the birds aren’t up yet, but she’s walking. She’s 70 years old and sweating through a gray shirt as she trudges up a long hill in the dark. She’ll walk six miles on the grounds of Kansas City Kansas Community College before the sun comes up. Ten years from now — God willing, she says — she’ll still be walking six miles every day. She’ll walk in the heat, in the cold, in the rain and the snow, because that’s what she has done every morning for 41 years.
Appreciating middle age Middle-aged people may run the world, but you would hardly know it from their public image.
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