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I have been going to the dentist since I was two. Six decades plus later, I still have my own teeth–no implants, bridges, or false teeth. Nowadays I floss regularly and follow up with mouthwash. My daily brushing and annual visits to the dentist worked. Still it is never too late for tooth decay or [...]

Meningitis is preventable. Eradicating it will prevent deaths, seizures, blindness, amputation, paralysis, and learning disabilities. A vaccination, Infant Meningococcal, exists that is currently not on the pediatricians Vaccine for Children Program schedule. The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention wants input and has planned public meetings in Seattle, Denver and Chicago this summer. Maybe [...]

Here it is January 18, 2012, and the order I made earlier in the week from Mr. Chewy is here. Online purchase deliveries surely are easier than lugging heavy dog food bags from the store to the car then to the door. You see my dogs are a hefty male 100 pound St. Bernard and [...]

ELMO’S FAVORITE THINGS DVD Release Date: February 7, 2012 Rated: NR (Not Rated) Number of discs: 1 Language: English Studio: Sesame Street ASIN: B005SH64QE It’s packing time again as I’m leaving on a jet plane to visit my grandbaby. Knowing just how much Princess loves Elmo, I made sure to slip in the DVD Elmo’s [...]

THE FAT BOY CHRONICLES DVD Release Date: January 3, 2012 Rated: Unrated Run Time: 78 minutes Number of discs: 1 Language: English Studio: Phase 4 Films ASIN: B005WTG698 Signaling out someone who is different and targeting him with ridicule, making him the butt of jokes is not right but it is reality. Bullying is not [...]

All women have their own particular bad hair days. Face it, girls, many of us just do not have the magic of Rapunzel’s tresses. Me, I have no skill with hair. It’s wash, comb, drip-dry mostly with an occasional cut and dye trip to the local beauty salon. That’s why I was especially thrilled when [...]

Chicken Soup for the Soul – Inspiration for the Young at Heart Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: CSS Publishing (2011) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-935096-71-9 SMRP: $14.95 To some life ends with retirement; to others, it just begins again. The years after 60 are what one makes of it – new adventures, new careers, the privileges and [...]