Dear Heloise: If you don't own a paper shredder, here's a second solution: For a large amount of paper with personal information on it, you can place it in a dish pan and fill the pan with water and a cup of bleach. The ink will mostly dissolve, and the paper will become mushy. Then you can ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I have one daughter, and family has always been important to us. She has several cousins around her age, and we've always hoped they would grow up close. Over the years, we've been the ones reaching out to make plans, but the effort is rarely reciprocated. I don't ...
ESCANABA — Across the country, allergy season is undergoing a significant shift. Poor air quality, caused by the growing reach of wildfire smoke combined with rising pollen counts, is creating a compounding effect for the millions of Americans who already struggle with seasonal allergies. While poor air quality and wildfire smoke do not directly cause allergies, health professionals warn that they can make allergy symptoms incredibly difficult to manage—even for individuals whose mild symptoms are typically well-controlled. Allergy season used to be a relatively predictable window, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
