| Task mastering: Splitting chores with your sweetie | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:57:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Unless you received a butler as a wedding gift, you'll have just as much annoying housework as ever now that you're a newlywed. The good news? You have a partner in grime. Many of these tasks are duties you'll want to share. Just be sure you have a schedule for switching off and that you stick to it. By laying it out all in advance, you'll avoid future blowups over unrequited chore expectations. • Acknowledge birthdays, anniversaries, etc. To keep track of everyone, use an online calendar -- it'll even send you e-mail reminders to buy Uncle Lou his birthday stogies. • Arrange a vacation Yes, coordinating plane tickets, hotel stays and activities can be a drag. But whoever does it has ultimate control over decisions.... | |
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| | | Big chill gets cold shoulder | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:31:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Long after poor old Walt Disney was supposedly stuck in the freezer there's a whole new push for the concept, in spite of the cold, hard facts. Personally, I think it will always remain the stuff of sci-fi flicks. It is the ultimate in vanity and claims that you can bring a dead person back to life by "reanimating" a corpse are surely fanciful. At worst, those who want it must be vain to assume mankind can never do without them. At best, they are desperate individuals clutching at straws. Understandably, the idea tempts some of the most vulnerable in our community, the old and the sick, because it offers false hope for a life ever after, that there is a slim chance you can live forever young. Philip Rhoades is an Australian scientist who refuses to accept basic Biology 101.... | |
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| | | Rock bottom | | Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:57:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | About 70 people, nearly all women, sit stone quiet in grief inside Summit United Methodist Church in the University District. Lee Hopkins and Audrey Luthringer are sad and tired. They hold hands as calming water trickles through a nearby fountain. A few hours earlier, a veterinarian had put their dog Maggie to sleep. Now the couple sit at a service for their friend Ronda King, who died Oct. 23 of breast cancer at age 49. For nearly 20 years, Ronda was the partner of Johnda Boyce, president of Living Proof, a central Ohio support group for lesbians with cancer. Since Lee found the group on the Internet in April, she and Audrey have attended monthly meetings. Living Proof provides stability at a time of rapid change. Maintaining friendships outside the group hasnt always been easy. A terminal illness puts distance between friends.... | |
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| | | Toxin Avenger | | Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:57:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | I thought I was a relatively healthy person; I did yoga regularly, loved my veggies and had never uttered the phrase “Supersize me." But a whirlwind winter of partying had raged on well past the new year, and decadent staples like wine, cheese, bread, chocolate and strong espresso every morning to jolt me alert had left me with that not-so-fresh feeling right down to my ribosomes. I needed a cleansing. Somewhere in the champagne-clouded recesses of my brain I remembered hearing about the 21-Day Detox. The Santa Monica–based program was started six years ago by Dr. Richard DeAndrea and nutritionist John Wood, who believe that an organic, plant-based diet (no animal products or refined sugar at all) is the foundation for healthy living. They also believe that we should all detox twice a year.... | |
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