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Nudge, Nudge: Baby, be my rock ’n’ roll Valentine

Nudge, Nudge: Baby, be my rock ’n’ roll Valentine

Valentine’s Day has come and gone. I got through it in my usual way: with elaborate subterfuge and self-serving rationalizing. The first thing that happened, pre-Valentine’s, was I bought two tickets to Aerosmith.

Your Good Health: Why doctors prescribe Coumadin

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been taking warfarin (Coumadin) for two years now. I started taking it after a knee-replacement surgery, when they discovered I had A fib.
If you’re happy, your dog knows it

If you’re happy, your dog knows it

Word to the wise: Don’t play poker with your dog. He can read your face like a book. A new study shows that man’s best friend is remarkably good at discerning happy expressions from angry ones — even when he’s only looking at half of a person’s face.

Your Good Health: Lynch Syndrome awareness needed

Dear Dr. Roach: A recent column regarding the man with advanced colon cancer two years after a normal colonoscopy sent up a red flag for me.
Take a cue from Oscars for your own wardrobe

Take a cue from Oscars for your own wardrobe

TORONTO — Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto and best-actor nominee Eddie Redmayne have been mainstays on the red carpet during awards season, each with their own distinct approaches to formal fashion.
Couple married for 58 years to be reunited at care home

Couple married for 58 years to be reunited at care home

Arne and Iris were separated when Iris started needing full-time care for dementia in October 2013
Ask Eric: Is bulgogi Asian or not?

Ask Eric: Is bulgogi Asian or not?

You can serve this spicy, Korean-style beef on lettuce leaves, steamed rice of tortillas
Global Voices: Missing women national horror story

Global Voices: Missing women national horror story

The distraught woman scoured the streets, her eyes darting from side to side. She broke down in tears when police approached. “I’m looking for my daughter. She’s being pimped out by a boy who’s in a gang, and I need to find her.
The Doctor Game: A living will

The Doctor Game: A living will

It offers proof that you have chosen to take charge of the end of your life story
Faith Forum: Valentine’s Day

Faith Forum: Valentine’s Day

Christopher Page Looking at the history of the Christian church, and many institutional manifestations of the faith that has its roots in the person of Jesus, you could be forgiven for failing to notice that Christian faith is, before anything else,