Dear Amy: I am shocked and hurt by comments my brother-in-law made to me during the recent otherwise wonderful trip my husband and I took with him and my sister. He is the most physically healthy of all of us, but perhaps he is losing his filters as we aging people sometimes do.
“Gaslighting” — behavior that’s mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam- webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before.
Dear Amy: I am a happily married, 54-year-old woman. I have a great primary medical provider.
If you’re cooking a meal for Thanksgiving or just showing up to feast, you’re part of a long human history — one that’s older than our own species. Some scientists estimate our early human cousins may have been using fire to cook their food almost 2 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens showed up.
Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to “extremely hardcore” work or resign with severance pay. While it’s not clear exactly how many of Twitter’s already-decimated staff took Musk up on his offer, the newest round of departures means the platform is continuing to lose workers just at it is gearing up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, one of the busiest events on Twitter that can overwhelm its systems if things go haywire.
Alittle girl was having problems because she hated rice pudding. Once, when her mother had prepared rice pudding for supper, the little girl refused to eat it. There was an impasse. Finally, realizing that her mother really meant business, the little girl quickly downed the rice pudding, hating every last morsel.