Ascension Senior Citizens Christmas Party relocates to Lamar Dixon
The Christmas party for area senior citizens held annually at the Gonzales Civic Center will relocate to the Lamar Dixon Expo Center this year. The event is sponsored each year by the City of Gonzales...
View ArticleLost in Suburbia: Playing chicken with Santa
As I circled the mall parking lot for the 30th time, I finally saw a pair of red lights two rows over that let me know someone was pulling out. I quickly threw my car into reverse and sped over to the...
View ArticleAsk Lisa: Cold can help keep horseradish potent
Q: I love horseradish but even a small jar loses it's potency before I'm able to finish it. Any ideas to prolong the life of bottled horseradish? Alternatively, if I buy fresh horseradish root, how...
View ArticleIn Good Faith: Let your light shine (or not)
When you live on Main Street in a quaint New England town, there is great pressure to put up white lights in your windows in the weeks leading up to Christmas. I'm not sure how long this tradition has...
View ArticleA snack that Santa's helpers would adore
Holiday parties just aren't as good without homemade treats. But your mom and dad may already have their hands full of special snack requests before you mention needing food for a class party or a...
View ArticleAt your next holiday party, be strategic about your snacking picks
Some traditional foods are essential to our personal holiday experiences, connecting us to loved ones past and present and fulfilling us in ways beyond what any nutritional analysis could measure....
View ArticleHow to understand the mystery of tea, with 6 classic types
With cooler weather coming, warmer beverages sound better every day. Still, you can drink only so much coffee, and some of us are perhaps already a little, um, over-caffeinated. Maybe it's time to...
View ArticleFake tree? Yup. I'm not proud of it either.
Our family's move over to the faux side this holiday didn't play well on Instagram.Last week I posted a photo of our recent stop at Home Depot to shop for fake trees. The comments ranged from...
View ArticleReligion News: Vatican launches website to help protect minors
WEEK IN RELIGIONFor the first time, the Roman Catholic Church is publishing resources and documents pertaining to clergy sex scandals to help promote healing and reconciliation, and to protect children...
View ArticleNetworx: Get your fireplace in great shape for the holidays
A blazing fire and a fresh dusting of snow form the perfect backdrop to the winter holidays, whether you happen to be celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or National Chocolate Covered Anything...
View ArticleTwin beds make a comeback
Not since the days of "I Love Lucy" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" have twin beds gotten so much attention from grown-ups.Whether it's because baby boomers are downsizing or people simply want to...
View ArticleSurgeon general calls youth e-cigarette smoking 'a major public health concern'
The U.S. surgeon general on Thursday called the skyrocketing use of e-cigarettes among youth "a major public health concern," saying that although more research needs to be done on its potential harms,...
View ArticleWith four kids, one-size-fits-all approach to discipline won't work
Q: We have four kids (8, 6, 4 and almost 1). The older kids are close and tend to do things together. How do we handle undesirable behavior when the strategies are different for different ages or when...
View ArticleDiabetes Quick Fix: Pork Chops with Apple Relish and Sweet Potatoes
Sweet and tart apple relish garnishes the sauteed boneless pork chop in this quick recipe. Sweet potatoes, gently steamed, complete this fall harvest meal.Apples should be kept in the refrigerator and,...
View ArticlePantone's 2017 Color of the Year is a 'bright and powerful' green
For a world weary of so much red and blue, green may be just the right tone for the 2017 Pantone Color of the Year.The 2017 anointed color, Greenery, a "zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first...
View ArticleTales From the Front: A friend with some but not all the benefits
Dear Cheryl: I went online to find a friend with benefits. I didn't want to get serious at this stage in my life. I got responses from a lot of freakos, then I actually found one man I wanted to meet....
View ArticleTales From the Front: Worth the wait
Like so many people looking for a partner, Krista turned to the internet. She learned to decode men's profiles. "When they say they're not materialistic it means they have no money and no job," she...
View ArticleTales From the Front: The grand passion: Not everyone has one
Not everyone gets married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout, as Johnny Cash so quaintly put it. Some people get married with a temperature no higher than 98.6. And sometimes not even with that....
View ArticleSwimming's not a contact sport - most of the time
They call swimming a low-impact sport because it's easy on the joints. But sometimes it's not so easy on the brain.We've heard a lot in recent years about the dangers of head trauma in sports,...
View ArticleHelping my Jewish kids find their place at the Christmas season party
Fa la la la la, we decked our house out! In October. Because December is for Christmas, and the closest we get to tinsel is the wax-catching foil under our Menorah.But Halloween? We can do that. My...
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