Childhood food allergies are apparently much more common in America than previously believed. A clinical study, recently published in the journal Pediatrics, found that about 8 percent of children under the age of 18, almost 6 million, suffer from one or more food allergies.
Yesterday I had a sudden, unexplained urge to reorganize something, so I tore apart our pantry and started putting in new shelving. This morning I woke up feeling impending doom, and it wasn’t because I hadn’t finished organizing our pantry yet. I think it’s because today is the last day of school.
Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra’s popular summer camp is filling up fast.
This camp is a bargain at only $25.
I am especially fond of what we might call landscape poems, describing places, scenes. Here April Lindner, who lives in Philadelphia, paints a scene we might come upon on the back side of any great American city.
Ahhh! Or should I say AARRGG? It’s time for the kids to be home for the summer. It can be a wonderful, bonding experience, but for the most part it is a lot more work for me.
If it were up to them, their summer would consist of staying up until their father left for work at 4:30am, sleeping until late in the afternoon, playing on the computer, Gameboy or Wii, watching TV and starting it all over again.
In February, John Ewell of Maple Valley, was in a car accident that changed his life.
Friends and family of Ewell are hosting a silent auction fundraiser from 1-5 p.m., Saturday, June 25, at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church to help with his medical bills associated with injuries suffered in the accident.
A just released study on the benefits of HDL (the “good”) cholesterol-raising drugs has shown disappointing results. While lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol levels plays an important role in the treatment of heart disease, doctors have long believed that taking active measures to increase HDL levels as well would yield additional benefits.
Many of us have attempted to console friends who have recently been divorced, and though it can be a pretty hard sell, we have assured them that things will indeed be better with the passage of time. Here’s a fine poem of consolation by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, who teaches at Penn State.
Last summer when we were camping in our RV, I told one of my daughters, who shall remain unidentified, to do the dishes.
Tahoma High group wins film making contest with movie “The Last One”
Here’s a fine poem by my fellow Nebraskan, Barbara Schmitz, who here offers us a picture of people we’ve all observed but haven’t thought to write about.
There is a silent killer among us. 15,000 Americans die from it each year and it is the 10th leading cause of death. Innocuously known as Triple A, or AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm is the third leading cause of death in men over age 60. Although twice as common in men as women, the risk of rupture in women is four times greater than in men and when AAA ruptures, it carries a 75-90 percent mortality rate.
Watching TV and playing video games has long been named as one of the culprits for our national obesity crisis. Our sedentary lifestyle habits certainly deserve some of the blame and there is no shortage of advice on how to wean us from our most beloved pastime.
So the first mowing of spring was actually done by my husband a few weeks ago. Let’s get something straight though, it took him several hours and several distractions to actually get anything like the lawn mowed down. And he only did “the edges.” By the edges I mean he didn’t move any lawn furniture and he didn’t mow the front yard.
For most law-abiding Americans, legal assistance may not be a service you think you could need at a moment’s notice. While you may think of legal assistance in connection with a criminal offense, most of the legal work done in America is for people facing much more ordinary circumstances.
Those thespians at Tahoma High have talent as the school’s production of “Children of Eden” was nominated for nine awards in the 5th Avenue’s Honoring High School Musical Theater awards.
For me, the most worthwhile poetry is that which reaches out and connects with a great number of people, and this one, by Joe Mills of North Carolina, does just that. Every parent gets questions like the one at the center of this poem.
Some days I keep thinking of all the things I need to get done, then I forget what they were. If I hope to get anything done, I have to make a list. I actually love making lists, but more importantly I love crossing things off a list. I even write down things I’ve already done just so I can cross them off. It makes me feel productive.
Naming stuff is hard. John Lennon used to say that he had a dream in which a man on a flaming pie came down and told him that he should name his band The Beatles, with an “a”. Paul McCartney said that the guys in the band were big fans of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets so they decided to name themselves after an insect too, but change the spelling of it so that it would have the musical term “beat” in it. Lennon’s story is probably untrue but, I think, considerably more entertaining.
I have officially declared this a good week! A good week is directly determined by how quickly I finish the laundry.
I don’t have space to pile laundry as I, quite literally, only have a “laundry hall.” It is a hallway between the kitchen and the master bath.
