Dear Doctors: I’ve recently been diagnosed with benign essential blepharospasm. Would you please explain what this is? How serious is it? Does it spread? I know it’s not deadly, but I’ve read that it can be debilitating, and I’m a little concerned about my future.
VERO BEACH, Fla. – I saw it lift into the dusky heavens, reaching upward in a stunning ballet of determination and grace, creeping across the sky in an orange streak, stretching toward Earth’s orbit. And somehow, the rise of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket defied the notion that there is no revelation in repetition.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I used to hang out with a group of women from my neighborhood, and we formed a real bond over the years. My husband and I downsized last year to a smaller home in my home state. While I think we made the right decision financially, I am so lonely. I miss my friends and our genuine camaraderie. I want to get us together and had the thought of inviting them to a Zoom cocktail party with me. They could be at their individual homes or all together, like we used to do, with me on camera. Do you think that would be too much of an imposition? That’s one thing I liked during the pandemic — we figured out how to be together from a distance. I don’t want to be too pushy, though. — Need To Connect DEAR NEED TO CONNECT: I bet your friends miss you as much as you miss them. By all means, suggest that you create a virtual cocktail party with them. Ideally, everyone would be in their own homes. That way, everybody gets a chance to talk, and they are all focused on the screen. Sometimes when one person is virtual and the rest are not, the in-person party can be distracting and draw people away from the person who isn’t in the room. If it turns out to be a big gathering with you added in, suggest that the first hour be focused on all of you talking to one another. Then you can sign off and they can continue.
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This was all completely predictable. The government is facing a massive fiscal crisis because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a lethal combination of excessive ambition and extreme weakness.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a business consultant. I worked with a new team this week and got to observe the program facilitator up close. She did an outstanding job taking care of her team and making sure that the environment was conducive to a positive outcome.
Dear Doctors: I have been diagnosed with inverse psoriasis in the area of my groin. My dermatologist has prescribed clobetasol propionate ointment to be used twice a day. The skin in that area bleeds easily, and physical contact is painful. Please explain this condition and if there is a cure.
After a half-century of decline, the U.S. Episcopal Church has 1.5 million members, and its average weekly attendance was just above 500,000 before COVID-19 and 300,000 afterward.
Commencement season is upon us. And if I were giving one of the addresses this year, I'd begin with a quote from William F. Buckley Jr.: 'We are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us.'
Receiving awards for being in the upper 3 percent of the nation’s graduating high school students were (front row, left to right) Jon Paden, DeAnna Davis, Jackie Rightnowar, Kristin King, (back row) Jay Richert, Paul Howell, Alan Dick, Jeff Shadle and Eric Schumacher. Not pictured were Glynn Walker, Amy Warner and Jesse Vasquey.