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Itchy breast rashes may be caused by chemicals in the fabric from which bras are made: contact allergic dermatitis.
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Barring intervention by courts or its governor, Alabama will kill an 83-year-old man on April 19 — long-incarcerated for the 1989 mail-bomb killings of United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance and civil rights attorney Robert E. Robinson, Walter...
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Teens open up about the social media stresses they're experiencing.
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Things you remember about your life are not of the true events. What you are remembering is the last time you remembered the same event. The memories never get clearer, they only get fuzzier and a little less clear. Thus we leave everything behind, because...
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In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It’s hugely prevalent, all too often ignored – and being ignored, it is therefore condoned. Trudie Styler The first time I remember being bullied until I was in hysterical sobs, I was four years old. Several little...
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I walk into the room as the two girls who were having an animated discussion glanced up at me for a millisecond, offered a curt disinterested hello and then turned away in abrupt, awkward silence. This time, I had heard a bit of their conversation;...
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Everything you need to know about satisfaction (or lack thereof) can be learned from my cats, Minnie and Maxx, the Yin and Yang of feline existentialism. Minnie, jet black from head to tail, was clearly traumatized before I adopted her. She wanted nothing to do...
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I’ve had the weirdest experiences with doctors lately. This isn’t the first time, neither. Sometimes I think that doctors are just regular people who are in a position to do pretty much whatever they like to anyone who happens to walk through their door, into...
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Dawson and I are in a race of sorts. We’re both chugging along at a respectable pace, but now we see the end in sight. I’m heading for my sixty-seventh lap around the sun, while Dawson, my Sheltie (aka, Shetland Sheepdog), is face-to-face with his...
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