Story telling and age
A person’s ability to tell a short story, keeping all the facts in it and straight, can decline with age, according to a study in the Journal of…
Month: February 2017
A care-giving dilemma
Your very ill mother is in your care. One day her beloved son dies. Mother has so many problems now, should you tell her about the son? The answer, from…
Jackie Gleason: born Feb. 26, 1916: TO THE MOON, ALICE!
Alice Kramden was famously unimpressed when her husband Ralph regularly threatened to send her to the moon. The hugely successful and iconic series ‘The…
Beloved Legos move
Beloved Legos now move Big news for kids from this year’s tech conference, CES, in Las Vegas. The new Lego Boost kits bring creations to life with motors…
Is Parent Speak all about control?
Share! Be Careful! These typical parental cautions are too coercive, so says Jennifer Lehr, the author of Parentspeak, Parent speak is about compliance…
Smart phones and dry eye
Children who spend more time on their phone and less time outside have increased symptoms of dry eye, according to BMC Ophthalmology. Luckily, just giving…
Are Amazon DASH buttons worth it?
The idea seems good: You like a product such as a laundry detergent and you hate to run out. Why not stick a button on the washer with a link to the…
Some pitfalls of ordering online
We are not talking common occurrences here, but they are annoying and sometimes expensive occurrences. What if you order $2,000 worth of camera equipment…
Born Feb. 22, 1892; The American poet who snubbed convention
American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for her poem ‘The Ballad of the Harp,’ a haunting story of a poor mother…
Born Feb. 25, 1841: Renior: Painter of love and nature
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born just 11 days short of Valentine’s Day on February 25, 1841. His life, however, would be framed by his love…