My son's favorite pants are camouflage. His favorite color is TAN. And recently he said to me, "I don't want you to call me Isaac anymore." "What do you want me to call you?" I asked. "I want you to call me LIEUTENANT." Once when he was younger, he was Civil War. First name CIVIL, last name WAR. Last summer, a National Guardsman on training mission invited “Civil War” to sit in a Humvee at South Dakota’s Custer State Park. During our trip to ...

Excess of caffeine is bad for anyone, but what about a little caffeine for a woman who is pregnant? This is a topic that has been much speculated and debated, but what is the answer? Many obstetricians advise women to abstain from caffeine all together in the first trimester of pregnancy, and to limit caffeine for the rest of the pregnancy as much as possible. Why limit, because researchers have concluded that the use of caffeine during pregnancy may doubly ...

I was trying to choose from the myriad of dishwashing liquids available at my grocery store, when my son told me that Dawn cleans dishes like nothing else can. One morning after I hadn’t slept well, he suggested I try Lunesta. But when he told me he had just saved a lot of money on car insurance, it finally hit me: We need TV-Turnoff Week. TV-Turnoff Week, which takes place April 21-27 this year, encourages children and adults to take ...

Children are fattening! I mean RAISING them—NOT eating them. For one thing, parents don't have a lot of time to exercise, partly because we spend so much time watching our children exercise. And while jumping up and down yelling, "Go the OTHER WAY!" burns calories, it doesn't burn as many as getting out on the field and running the wrong way ourselves. Besides that, couples who become parents see a gradual transformation in their diets from "real food," which is lower ...