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Dr. Loretta Brady with advice for helping you steer through the chaos of life, toward clarity. Today’s question: My daughter is obsesses with make-up videos. I’d like to steer her toward STEM endeavors. HELP!
Among my adventures in pet photography: He pounced. I clicked. He glared at me. Then I heard a funny whirring sound. Call it a cat’s revenge, but somehow, and I don’t know what happened, that camera’s toast.
Reflections on MLK Day: In our country there is room for disagreement around our belief system. There is however, no room for violence or injustice based on a person’s skin color.
Too much calm, we stay on the couch watching “Facts of Life” reruns when we should be studying. Too much fear, and we stay on the couch watching “Facts of Life” reruns … that wasn’t a typo.
Inside The Puritan Backroom Gabby and her pals lifted a toast to Gov. Sarah Palin. “What a gift,” said Charlie, the black cat, using the same words Tina Fey’s gang chose when Palin, the Tina doppelganger, first burst on the scene.
One month to the day after Dr. Martin Coster performed the surgery that saved his eyesight, Phil, the cat has been adopted, according to Rob Halpin, spokesman for MSPCA-Angell.
Phil, the homeless kitten, was born without upper eyelids, meaning he could not blink and lubricate his eyes, according to Rob Halpin of MSPCA-Angell. (The medical name for this congenital defect is agenesis, Halpin said.) Apart from causing eye irritation, Phil’s condition, if untreated, would lead to blindness.
In his book The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, Daniel Levitin has done the research and the math. He says 81 percent of online dating profiles are built on lies – most commonly underestimating weight and overestimating height. Politics and religion are hardly ever included as a selling point, and continue to be taboo when trying to catch a soulmate. Agreeing to disagree is not a popular option.
My hope is that this column will serve as a compass for readers seeking clarity in the chaos of their businesses, personal lives, or relationships. From time to time we will have guest columnists offer their insight on a challenge. This information is simply opinion, but I hope you will share your stories so that others can gain clarity for themselves. Questions are powerful. We hope you will share yours here.
“Peanut butter surprise, my paw,” Asia fumed. “Yuk. Plus, it’s always a one-way street with these humans. If people can invent recipes for pet treats, why shouldn’t the pets come up with ideas for people treats?” – Asia, sitting in for The Gabby Dog
The treatment at Angell Animal Medical Center works by wrapping a laser around the tumor “so tightly that it destroys cancer cells without affecting nearby tissues,” Halpin said, meaning vets can blast through tumors aggressively without worrying about side effects damaging nearby vital organs, like the brain or the eyes.
“When our students participate in real-life activities they learn valuable lessons about trial and error, decision-making, reasoning, innovation, and creativity through project-based learning.”
These dogs “have never stepped on the ground, felt the rain or the sunshine or the grass beneath their paws,” Campbell said. They’re scared at first. But they spend three weeks in foster homes where the other pets show them the ropes, including the basics about eating from a bowl, sleeping in a bed and going outside to do business.
‘I quit cold turkey and never looked back. Sometimes that first year I would wake up with nightmares that I had started smoking again. I had to shake myself until I realized that I hadn’t and embrace, once again, my victory over dependence.”
US Postal Workers are asking the public’s support during a Nov. 14 action day and vigil.
Hillside Middle School student wants candidates to pick up after themselves and clean up campaign signs left on her school’s “front lawn.”
Parking tickets suck. But the new Manchester NH Connect mobile app makes it practically painless to pay up. I said practically!
More from Keene State College freshman Rick Kfoury in the aftermath of the Oct. 20 Keene Pumpkinfest riot.
Join the HOPE for Recovery from addiction rally at NH Statehouse, Oct. 18, 2014, 11a.m. -2 p.m.
