One of the most feared health problems the aging Baby Boomer generation will face is dementia. And it won’t just affect those suffering from mental decline but also those who care for them and society at large, at least in financial terms.
When I reminded my family we were meeting their Grandparents at a restaurant to celebrate my oldest daughter’s birthday, I got mixed responses. My husband wanted to know what time, my oldest said “oh yeah,” and my youngest claimed she didn’t know about it.
Should I still take my rat poison? This is a common question I receive from my patients but also from audience members during my presentations on stroke treatment and prevention.
I always enjoyed a competitive spirit. Throughout my life, I was convinced I could accomplish more when I was challenged by formidable rivals, both at work and sports.
As children get older it seems they should be easier. I’m here to tell you, or confirm to you if you have children of your own, they are much harder the older they get.
KCLS invites everyone to find A Place at the Table! We’ll toss around fresh ideas about food, cooking, nutrition and growing and using locally produced food.
I reconnected with a high school friend a few weeks ago. We immediately tried to figure out a date when we could meet up. She lives at the ocean so, of course, I wanted to go to her house; who doesn’t love the ocean?
a new study that was published in the American Journal of Public Health found that even smaller amounts of alcohol than what is deemed acceptable by the USDA’s dietary guidelines for Americans may be too much when it comes to preventing certain diseases, including cancer.
My first daughter is a spring baby, so the year she turned one, my husband and I decided to show her the fine art of egg dyeing. I think we both had fantasies of showing her the marvel of dipping eggs into dye, letting them sit and pulling them out all brightly colored.
Robert Morgan, who lives in Ithaca, New York, has long been one of my favorite American poets. He’s also a fine novelist and, recently, the biographer of Daniel Boone. His poems are often about customs and folklore, and this one is a good example.
Even though the calendar says spring has arrived, most of Mount Rainier National Park is still covered in deep winter snow. Paradise currently has 167 inches of snow on the ground.
“Sit in the chair, don’t stand; sit in the chair, don’t stand.” I so miss the days when my children were small and that mantra was the most complicated thing I needed to relay to them: “Don’t stand on chairs.”
This kite-flying poem caught me right up and sent me flying as soon as Robert Gibb described those dimestore kites furled tighter than umbrellas, a perfect image. Gibb lives in Pennsylvania.
As a wife, stay-at-home mom and self-employed, work-from-home woman, I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. Whether I’m just making another cup of coffee with my espresso machine, loading the dishwasher, getting my lunch or making dinner for my family, I am in and out of my kitchen all day.
A new diet has become all the rage in Britain and is now making landfall on our shores as well. It’s called the Fast Diet and millions of weight loss candidates already swear by it.
If you have been an avid reader of my blog on my website, you know I usually spend time contemplating daylight savings time, even going so far as to research the reason for it (I still don’t understand).
People get fat from eating too much and exercising too little. At least that’s the most widely held explanation for the growing obesity crisis around the world.
This new column is dedicated to the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in Maple Valley to create more awareness of the Arboretum and its programs.
I’ve heard parenting experts say that children want time with Mom and Dad above all else. That no amount of gifts or other material things can take the place of time spent together.
