When my son was a toddler, my wife and I tried to encourage good oral hygiene by singing Raffi’s “You Brush Your Teeth” every night. The refrain, “ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch,” usually accompanied by moving a finger back and forth in front of your mouth, mimics a thorough job with a toothbrush. I’m not sure how effectively my […]
I’m shy about pooping anywhere that is not my home ― so when I’m about to go on a trip, I think about how I’ll prep my bowels to open before my friends wake up. After my morning coffee, I’m usually ready to go. But if I don’t happen to have access to coffee that […]
At age 7, while bumping along in the back of my parent’s VW bus and thoroughly immersed in Roald Dahl’s “The BFG,” I was struck with an overwhelming wave of nausea that culminated in tossing my cookies on the side of the interstate highway. Thus began my very long and arduous relationship with motion sickness. […]
If you ask people why they travel, you’ll probably get a different answer from each person. One wants to experience another culture, one is going on a bachelorette trip, one wants to make their kids better humans and another is seeing family. A reason that’s heard less often, perhaps, is to slow down biological aging. […]
Marriage is full of highs, lows and a whole bunch of ordinary moments in between. Somehow the married people on X, formerly known as Twitter, continue to find humor in the minutiae of wedded life. Every week, we round up the funniest marriage tweets on the platform. Read on for 20 relatable ones that will […]
It’s 11 a.m. on a weekday, and I am grocery shopping with my two children, at the time ages 8 and 10. I give them each a shopping list to complete on their own, and they push a child-sized cart around the store and pick up the items on the list. We regroup at the […]
“I feel just like … college,” I’d dreamily slurred. According to my husband, Mark, I’d said these words to no one in particular while staring up at the ceiling tiles through drooping lids. Then I drifted off to sleep in my hospital bed and was wheeled down the hall for my abortion. All the hours […]
Chickenpox. Whooping cough. Measles. You may have heard about outbreaks of these illnesses and thought, “Didn’t we end those with vaccinations?” But the only communicable disease that we have eradicated using vaccines is smallpox, which explains why you likely never received a shot for it if you were born in the U.S. after 1972. Measles, […]
You may have noticed there’s been an influx of food recalls recently. McDonald’s Quarter Pounders are at the center of an E. coli outbreak. Boar’s Head is under fire for selling contaminated deli meat that resulted in multiple hospitalizations and deaths. Last week, chicken products sold at Costco and multiple batches of frozen waffles were […]
We all know that it’s important to control your cholesterol, but the focus tends to be on the so-called “bad cholesterol” or LDL cholesterol. For most folks, their “good cholesterol” or HDL cholesterol, isn’t part of the equation — but a new study suggests that’s not exactly right. The study, which was conducted by researchers […]