It used to be that the only way to avoid looking older was to die young. Accepting the signs of aging seemed the only rational thing to do, since the other option never much appealed to me. But lately there has been a spate of articles and books aimed at teaching female baby boomers like me how to look young. ( In my research, I didn’t find a single article about how men could look younger. I’m not sure if ...

Recently I received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. I tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else I could think of to “clean up” the bird’s vocabulary. Finally, I was fed up and I yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled ...

In the pre-Thanksgiving rush, we have received an early weather report from our in-house weather reporters. Turkeys will thaw in the morning, then warm in the oven to an afternoon high near 190F. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or cold shoulder. During the late afternoon and evening, the cold front of a knife will slice through the turkey, causing an accumulation of one to two ...