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First Bite: Taking time off

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:59 +0000

Last week’s issue was abruptly shortened by Isaac, and I apologize for that. We lost power 24 hours before the storm, then briefly got it back for about an hour, and then it was gone again for another three days. But given that after Katrina and Gustav we had no power for almost two weeks [...]

Live Well: For fall 2012, what says the fashion world?

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:44 +0000

Once again, I turned to Tom Cagley for answers. As he was introduced back in June, Tom Cagley was the senior vice president and general merchandise manager for 24 Goudchaux’s/Maison Blanche department/specialty stores in Louisiana and Florida that did $500 million in sales and at one point did more sales-per-square-foot than any store in the [...]

Spotlight: Liz Fouss

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:26 +0000

Mary Elizabeth (Liz) Mattmiller Fouss: ‘My true calling is caregiving’ I was born in Baton Rouge, La., after WWII ended in Europe, and grew up with eight sisters and three brothers on the family rice farm in rural Arkansas County, Ark., where some of my father’s ancestors had settled in the mid-1800s. (My father always [...]

What’s Ripe Today: Prostate, breast cancer

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:20 +0000

I feel so relieved to be at the stage I’m at in my life right now. … If I want to wear my glasses, I’m wearing my glasses. If I want to pull my hair back, I’m pulling my hair back. –Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when asked about appearing without any makeup September is [...]

Be Well: Are you sleep-deprived?

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:09 +0000

I know I am, and I suspect many readers are, too. I know we all know that the average person needs 7-1/2 to 8 hours of quality sleep per night, and I know many of us, like me, say, “I wish.” But here are some reasons to do something about it. According to syndicated columnist [...]

Kissing Frogs: First of the last

Paulette — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:04 +0000

Hope springs eternal, but it is also the leading cause of blindness. That’s because hope is like polarized sunglasses that remove the offensive glare and let only selected light shine in. I’m sure you’ve known obvious “mismatches” – very unlikely couples where you just don’t understand how one puts up with the other. It’s always [...]

First Bite: Sizzling styles for me?

Paulette — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:00:44 +0000

An article in the latest AARP The Magazine, under the headline “Sizzling Styles for You,” claims hot designs for 50-plus bods are suddenly in vogue. Women 45-plus spent close to $43 billion on clothes the year ending April 2012, an increase of 5 percent over the previous year, the article says, quoting market statistics from [...]

What’s Ripe Today: Two new breast cancer studies

Paulette — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:00:43 +0000

As I put it 26 years ago, to be forced to have sex without consent is ‘real rape.’ If anybody had told me then that I would still have to be making this point in 2012 – much less in response to a major party candidate for Senate – I would not have believed it. [...]

Be Well: ‘The hidden disease’

Paulette — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:00:48 +0000

The CDC has just come out with the recommendation that all adults born during 1945 and 1965 should get tested for the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hepatitis C is often called a “hidden disease” or “silent epidemic” because those infected with the virus are often unaware for 10-30 years after exposure. The symptoms are easy [...]

Spotlight

Paulette — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:00:34 +0000