Category Archives: Health

Yikes! Wrinkles? Age Spots? Oh My!

Yikes! As I grow my wisdom and it starts to grow on my face, I am shocked by the sight of it. The first place is in public restrooms. The lighting is terrible. If I dare look up while washing my hands I see an older woman with pale skin and shadows under her eyes. […]
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The Puppy Ate What Now?

The stench. It was poo. A smell so strong I felt covered in it. But where? We had been accident free for weeks. I was just starting to trust in our German Shepherd puppy’s house training. I searched for a pile of tootsie rolls and instead found dribbles of gooey brown poo on the hallway […]
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Our Norm: Nonpregnant

Nonpregnant is listed in the dictionary as a “self-explanatory word with the non- prefix.” I found this word amusing. Not only is the word self-explanatory, it seems unnecessary. Who needs the word nonpregnant–ever? At OxfordDictonary.com there is this sample sentence: “Using hair assays to measure compliance, pregnant women were compared with a control group of […]
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Grapefruit? What is that?

In an effort to improve my health and increase my intake of fruits and vegetables, I brushed the dust off my juicer and pulled one of these out of my produce drawer. My husband came into the kitchen and said, “Wow! What is that?” “It’s a grapefruit,” I said. Michael has seen grapefruit before, but […]
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