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Keeping your skin pristine

Dear Heloise: Every skincare company claims to have the perfect solution to staying young, but the truth is that lines and wrinkles are going to show up sooner or later. For many people, plastic surgery, skin peels and $200 creams are out of reach and might not do anything to remove the lines ...

Your first job doesn't have to be your last

Dear Annie: I'm a recent college grad, and I've always wanted to be a writer like you. I've applied to more jobs than I can count at newspapers and magazines but haven't landed a single offer. Everyone keeps saying "the job market is tough right now," but knowing that doesn't pay rent. I still ...

Blue Berry July

ESCANABA — Delta County’s delicacy has a long history of harvest by the shores of the Bays de Noc. The most delicious of all wild berries (in my opinion) the easiest to preserve and a plant with many medical uses, is the wild blue berry. The sandy soil, made acidic by countless jack pines and fragranced by sweet ferns, is prefect for the growth of blue berries. Indigenous people , hundreds of years go traveled with moccasined feet to the flat sandy berry hunting grounds around the mouth of the” Escanawba” River (original spelling). Many a birch-bark containers were filled ...

A decade in, Studio Ghibli Fest keeps growing as new generations flock to 'Totoro,' 'Ponyo' and more

NEW YORK (AP) — Whenever the calendar comes out, Amanda Mendoza VanCleave circles the dates. Studio Ghibli Fest, the long-running theatrical revivals of Ghibli movies, has taken on a special meaning for her, her 3-year-old daughter and her mother, Araceli. Every year, they go to see each Ghibli rerelease in theaters. "Right when she sees the opening Totoro logo, she screams 'Totoro!'" VanCleave, 34, says of her daughter. "Everyone in the theater started laughing, and I was like, 'Oh, gosh, sorry.'" Though the family discovered the Ghibli movies on HBO Max, the outings to their ...

Reader writes in with a 'thank you'

Dear Heloise: As I think about the things that I appreciate when contemplating our country's 250th birthday, I wanted you to know how much you mean to us. Heloise, you and your mom have given us a place to share ideas, support one another, and find solutions for real-life issues. You're a ...

The flight not taken

Dear Annie: My mom and I have always been close. I'm 35 now, but we talk almost every day, even though she's in Virginia, where I grew up, and I moved to Washington state after college. We make an effort to see each other as much as possible, but of course, it's never enough. Recently, a ...