Oh, how I feel for the mothers of teenage daughters — and for the daughters who don’t feel understood. In a column a while back, I confessed to investing a sizeable chunk of my life to blaming others for my ...

Guilt is a little word with big ramifications. It’s that nagging feeling you get when you’ve done something you feel you shouldn’t have done. This could include, but is certainly not limited to, drinking too much at that anniversary party, ...

You really don’t have much of a choice when a good clown is in the room. Being bombarded with a certain quality of ridiculousness, you can’t help but feel better. Literally. Laughter Unlimited is a crew of entertainers from the ...

A great horned owl nestling was one of the 27 animals admitted to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic this past week. Other admissions included a great blue heron, two eastern screech owls, nine eastern cottontails and three ...

Spring represents a time of growth and renewal — but not everything that springs forth this season is good for dogs. But with a little awareness and a few simple precautions, dog owners can prevent many of the problems that ...

It was Saturday morning, December, the 6th, 1941. It all started with a stone and a sawed-off broom handle. On that same day, the Japanese were amassing their fleet a few hundred miles northwest of the island of Oahu in ...

Way back when, say two or three years ago, which is way back when in our big screen and small screen digital world, we had an informal rule for cocktail parties.

Susan Watts, a 43-year-old London native and Naples resident since 2001, is one of four finalists in an online modeling competition to be the "face" of a New York-based cosmetic company.

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I think a stellar novel of Ireland is in order. And have I got a treat for you. The sepia cover of “Brooklyn” speaks volumes about the content of this new novel ...

Well, the 2010 Academy Awards have come and gone, and we have another year of movies to look forward to. No doubt we will be humored, horrified, fascinated, educated and otherwise entertained. But before I go off in anticipation of ...

What makes us forget? There are a number of factors that make forgetting more likely. The first step in improving memory is to plan for remembering. Anticipate where there will be challenges and plan strategies to help. Here are a ...

Here, he can be himself. A balanced and more equalized version than the boy he is the other six days of the week. He runs, he plays, he giggles. You would never know he has autism.

There is a common, treatable medical problem that few people recognize. The symptoms are nausea, loss of appetite, poor sleep, achiness, and a sense of not being well. Doctors will look for other diseases to match the symptoms with laboratory ...

When I was growing up, our family was not rich, nor was it poor. I didn’t always get what I wanted, but I always got what I needed, and for that, I am eternally grateful to my parents, particularly my ...

Some people secretively wonder, “what on earth is a feng shui garden?” when I begin explaining their benefits. Others probably muse that it must be another new fad, unsure how to pronounce the word, let alone spell it. New, it ...