Family

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Advice for Life

Advice from Amy: Toting Leftover Containers to a Dinner Party

Plus a reader reply to the mother concerned about her daughter’s older boyfriend

By Amy Dickinson | October 29, 2021
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Cathy M Rosenthal

How to Help Your Pet Cope with Your Vacation

Plus amazing bird communication

By Cathy M. Rosenthal | October 28, 2021
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Advice for Life

Advice from Amy: Should Friend Have Reached Out?

After losing touch, an old friend wavers between guilt and blame

By Amy Dickinson | October 26, 2021
Cabbage (image from Premium Health), an inexpensive, low-calorie, and nutritious vegetable
Food & Drink

The healthy vegetable you’re not using but should be

Inexpensive, low-cal, and nutritious, with oh-so-tasty possibilities

By Marnie Soman Schwartz, shape.com | October 22, 2021
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Advice for Life

Advice from Amy: Plucking Hairs Off Someone’s Shirt

‘I feel like an orangutan’

By Amy Dickinson | October 22, 2021
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Cathy M Rosenthal

Dog Rescued from Hoarding Still Scared a Year Later

Plus pets who may outsmart us and ‘urinary calculus’

By Cathy M. Rosenthal | October 21, 2021
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Advice for Life

Advice from Amy: Thanksgiving Birthday

“I want a celebration of my own!”

By Amy Dickinson | October 18, 2021
Image of pensive Black man. Article on Colorectal cancer and racial disparities
Health

Racial Disparities and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

A call to action

October 15, 2021
scared cat hiding (Credit: rawpixelimages dreamstime) “why is my ‘grand cat’ afraid of me?”
Cathy M Rosenthal

Traveling Cat May Associate “Grandma” with Trip

Plus litter box problems with a dog in the house and a mean cockapoo

By Cathy M. Rosenthal | October 14, 2021
Hemp plant from the Goochland farm of Kämé Naturals CBD products (image by Jawfox Photography, courtesy Kame Naturals)
Health

Feeling Good with Kämé Naturals CBD Products

A Richmond, VA, business sprouted from a vision of helping Mom

By Annie Tobey | October 13, 2021

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