Q. I have a problem. Since my periods started two years ago, they鈥檝e gotten worse and worse. My cramps are often unbearable. I鈥檓 in a lot of pain at least 3-4 days each cycle. I told my pediatrician at my yearly exam and she suggested to my mom that she take me to a gynecologist. My mom got ...
This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge in 1775, firing the "shots heard 'round the world" and starting the war for independence that marked the emergence of a new world order - that order being ...
Q. 1: I read your column about test anxiety with interest. I鈥檓 not anxious about taking tests as much as I鈥檓 anxious about getting good grades. I worry about grades all the time. It feels like my grades are all that matter to my mom. 鈥� 16-year-old ...
Every summer for more than I can recall, I've read, or reread, two books, both by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One is the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1940, at the age of 44 - 鈥淭he Last Tycoon,鈥� or more properly, 鈥淭he Love of the Last Tycoon, A Western.鈥� The other is ...
Q. I鈥檓 one of the teen fathers you helped. I remember you treating me with respect and encouraging me. One of the last things you said to me when I graduated was, 鈥淐all me if you need me.鈥� Well, here I am, 25 years later. The baby we had as teens did well, mostly because her mother was ...
There's a famous photograph of Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn wearing an Indian chief's headdress. Coolidge was a popular fella; he got away with it. Elon Musk, appearing last week in Wisconsin on the eve of that state's Supreme Court election, donned a cheese hat. He must have ...
