An older, tired-looking dog wandered into my yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home and was well taken care of.
He calmly came over to me, I gave him a few pats on his head; he then followed me into my house, slowly walked down the hall, curled [...]
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Public Policy Should Promote Family Mealtimes, Researchers Urge
ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2009) — In a new report, University of Illinois professor Barbara H. Fiese urges local, state, and federal governments, businesses, and community leaders to promote family mealtimes as a matter of public policy.
“There are few things parents can do that are as effective in protecting [...]
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All-Nighters Equal Lower Grades
ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2007) — With end-of-semester finals looming, here’s an exam question: Will pulling an all-nighter actually help you score well?
To the dismay of college students everywhere, the correct answer is “no.”
Pamela Thacher, associate professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University (Canton, N.Y.), studied the sleeping patterns and transcripts of 111 [...]
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Sleep Helps Reduce Errors In Memory, Research Suggests
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) — Sleep may reduce mistakes in memory, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a cognitive neuroscientist at Michigan State University.
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The findings, which appear in the [...]
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Planned Home Birth With Registered Midwife As Safe As Hospital Birth, Canadian Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2009) — The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a planned hospital birth, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
The study looked at [...]
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Laura and I are blessed with 4 amazing and wonderful daughters who, aside from being my spiritual teachers (making me stretch in love to graps the bewildering!), will inherit the world. In India and China, where we travelled and worked as a family, my daughters were confused by the persistent yet polite [...]
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Saturday, May 9, 2009 12:51 PDT
The funny thing about mothers
I have a friend whose mother litters every email with at least a dozen exclamation points. It’s as though she’s having a going-out-of-business sale, as though she could transmit her love through the sheer! force!!! of punctuation!!!!!! My own mother [...]
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Breast-Feeding Benefits Mothers, Study Finds
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: April 21, 2009
Most doctors agree that breast-feeding is best for babies’ health. Now a large study suggests that the practice benefits mothers as well: women who have breast-fed, it says, are at lower risk than mothers who have not for developing high blood pressure, diabetes [...]
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This is a wonderful piece by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large and small, and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
My father never drove a car. Well, that’s not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in [...]
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Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise [...]
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