Let’s meet Aida. She’s 51, gainfully employed until recently, married to Steven for 28 years, and has four grown children together. Three are on their own, two married with young children, and one son living at home. She’s 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 138 pounds. She has dark hair ...

Monday. Stretching over the far side of my bed, I could watch the dog’s rhythmic breathing. So Molly was still alive. Thank you, God. But why hadn’t she awakened me at seven (or earlier) as was her wont? It was almost eight o’clock. Frightened, I called to her. Relieved, I saw her ...

Often, we say things that really do not mean what they say. The summer we had an exchange student from France we found out just how many of these we said. It seemed like he was always confused and he showed it by his expression. He found some turtle wax on the table and asked about it. Do we ...

After dismal performances in both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Democratic primary, placing third and fourth place, respectively, Elizabeth Warren has about a 1/1024th chance of winning her party’s nomination. Yes, in politics, anything is possible — including unlikely comebacks ...

Eggs keep me alive, more or less. It is not just the eating of them, although I do down two scrambled eggs, dolloped with mayonnaise, almost every morning. It is the getting of those eggs that fulfills my doctors’ instructions to get a half-hour of vigorous exercise nearly every ...

Today we are going to talk about reactivity. A reactive dog is generally associated with aggression, but in most situations, that’s not the case. First of all, if as you are reading this article you believe your dog is displaying signs of reactivity, I would like to make it clear that this ...