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Squares of dried pulses - beans, etc. By Alina Yudina. Article on including healthy pulses in your diet
Food & Drink

Include Healthy Pulses in Your Diet

These easy, inexpensive meal ingredients deserve a nutritional high-five!

By Matthew Kadey, Environmental Nutrition | December 16, 2023
A mother and daughter visiting on a sofa at home. Image by motortion. Article: Is Daughter Caring or Judgmental?
Advice for Life

Is Daughter Caring or Judgmental?

Expressing concern for her mother’s health choices

By Amy Dickinson | December 8, 2023
woman on computer for a virtual health visit, image by Agenturfotografin. Article on Amazon One Medical Health Care
Health

Amazon One Medical Health Care

Attention, Amazon shoppers: You can now buy health care services

By Joey Solitro, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance | December 4, 2023
unhappy daughter and mother, image by Monkey Business Images. Article: 54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child
Advice for Life

54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child

Despite pushback from the rest of the family

December 1, 2023
female cancer survivor on her sofa at home, for article on managing unwanted weight loss compliments. Image by Wichayada Sunwannachun
Advice for Life

Dealing with Unwanted Weight Loss Compliments

Another good old Southern comeback besides ‘bless her heart’

By Amy Dickinson | November 24, 2023
A sad corgi, for an article that pets grieve too. Image by Irina Mescheryakova
Cathy M Rosenthal

Pets Grieve, Too

Experiencing the loss of a companion

By Cathy M. Rosenthal | November 20, 2023
A loving couple in an embrace, for an article on a couple who was disappointed in a narcissistic friend and wonders if the behavior is a friendship-ender. Image by Yuri Arcurs
Advice for Life

Narcissistic Behavior May Be a Friendship-Ender

‘Are we unreasonable for feeling this way?’

By Amy Dickinson | November 17, 2023
two women outside, engaged in conversation: insensitive friends gossiping to each other.
Advice for Life

Insensitive Friends Are Driving Her Nuts

She wonders how to move past their disrespectful actions

By Amy Dickinson | November 10, 2023
teenager at the Doncaster Pride Festival in 2017 - image by Shauntaylorhome. Article: Is it OK to ask teenagers about their romantic relationships while assuming they are straight? Or is that innocent question harmful?
Advice for Life

Grandmom’s Innocent Question May Be Harmful

Is it OK to assume a teenager is straight?

By Amy Dickinson | November 3, 2023
A couple kissing tenderly. By motortion. For article on a widower in love with his sister-in-law.
Advice for Life

Widower in Love with Sister-in-Law

But they fear family members’ reactions

By Amy Dickinson | October 27, 2023

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