If you’ve ever wandered around a hot parking lot searching for your car, you’ll love me for this tip. Next time you park, open Google Maps, tap the blue dot that shows your location, and select Set as parking location.
Dear Abby: “Dana” has been my best friend since 1995. We did so many things together, until she had gastric bypass surgery three years ago. Mind you, Dana was never fat. She may have been overweight, but never morbidly obese. She never participated in sports I did, such as mud/obstacle course runs or 5Ks. Her lack of participation wasn’t due to weight; she just said it “wasn’t for her.” After Dana lost some weight from her surgery, her mindset changed. She started making repeated snide remarks to me about my weight. I have some joint issues that are genetic. She said, “Maybe your weight doesn’t help.” Eventually, we stopped doing much together.
While much of the country has been open for quite some time, we are finally seeing the resurgence of gym goers creeping their way back toward pre-Covid numbers. It seems as though new faces are popping up each week in a quest to regain their pre-pandemic fitness. When you do return to the gym, there are a few things to remember.
You might think of storage cabinets as utilitarian. But designers are forever fascinated with how a simple cupboard can be built, dressed and adorned in ways that showcase craftsmanship and inventiveness. h There are sleek, low-slung consoles with jewelryesque handles. Swanky Deco-style bar cabinets. Rustic credenzas hewn of timber. And some pieces clad in artistic flourishes, or that are even art themselves. h Far from workhorses, these casegoods are dressage ponies, ready for their closeups.
Traditional Green Goddess Dressing was created in the 1920s by Chef Philip Roemer at the Palace Hotel. It was intended to honor actor George Arliss who was staying and the hotel in San Francisco. Arliss starred in a play called “The Green Goddess.”
Easy old-fashioned Southern broccoli salad is a crowd favorite and always a hit at potlucks and summer cookouts. It’s irresistibly delicious with crisp, chopped fresh broccoli, juicy cherry tomatoes and Craisins. Add cheddar cheese, crunchy bacon and roasted pecans, top it with a creamy homemade dressing, and this classic, make-ahead broccoli salad is a low-carb wonder and the vegetable side dish of your dreams.
For a while, the days of needing to warm up with a hot bowl of soup are past us. Now we want to cool down with something cold. That’s why I like to keep a rotating and regular supply of pasta salad in the fridge. It practically goes with everything and improves with a little time.
A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury, is much more common in sport than you may imagine. A concussion is caused by a force to the head, such as a knock or whiplash movement. It can happen with a fall off a bike, a slip while on roller blades or a trip on the tennis court. It causes a shake to the brain inside the skull, which means brain cells get disturbed and stretched.
Dear Abby: My husband’s job brings him a great deal of unhappiness, but he doesn’t want to quit. He has been a high school Spanish teacher for 13 years. It’s the only career he’s ever known. There have always been ups and downs, but the problems over the past few years seem to be that the majority of kids at his school, and the school environment in general, has become increasingly apathetic, dysfunctional and lacking in civility.
While you’re shopping for your child’s new swimsuits, you’re probably most focused on finding a style they like – emblazoned with action figures or Disney icons. But there is an important factor that you may not be giving enough attention to, and one that significantly factors into water safety: The visibility of the swimsuit, should your child go underwater. • The color of your child’s bathing suit may be more important than you realize. Alive Solutions, a company that specializes in aquatic safety, training, and risk assessment, tested 14 swimsuits in varying colors first in a pool and then in a lake and the results of the test may shock you. • Most swimsuit colors virtually disappear or appear to be a cluster of leaves or debris – not a struggling child – when only 18 inches below the surface of the water. Visibility continues to decrease exponentially with any sort of water agitation, like in a moderately-active swimming pool or water park, or in a lake or ocean with any amount of wave activity.