My hubby’s always itching and scratching his legs in the winter. It drives me crazy because it’s usually at night that it’s the worst. I decided to do a little bit of reading about winter itch to see what could be done to combat it. Here’s what I learned.
Winter itch is what it’s called when [...]
I found myself considering what the craziest thing that ever happened to me on vacation was, and the answer was a no brainer. Now realize before reading this that crazy does not mean the same as best. That being said, my trip to New Orleans, Louisiana while I was in high school was the craziest.
It [...]
March is coming to an end, and here in New Jersey that means that ARC Awareness Month is also coming to an end. If you don’t know what the ARC is, it is a nonprofit organization that used to be called the Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States. In the 90s they changed [...]
My eight year old son has alopecia areata, a condition causing many patches of baldness on his scalp. We have never been able to determine the cause, although we know it is medically based. I am always interested in learning more about hair loss because of my son’s condition, which is why I was pleased [...]
One of my coworkers, a friend, was writing a letter earlier this week and was having a bit of trouble with spelling the plural form of crisis. I told her I thought it was crises but she said the spellchecker didn’t like that so it must not be correct. Of course I had to come [...]
Q. What did the first oyster say to the second oyster when the first oyster said he wasn’t feeling well?
A. Well you must not be that sick because you don’t feel clammy to me.
Vibrio Vulnificus is a bacterial infection that grows in the seawater that is often shared by oysters. People can get this illness [...]
Since my son has recently been diagnosed with a hearing problem I find I have been trying to learn a little more about hearing loss and related topics. I found myself wondering what the difference between closed captioning and subtitles was, so I went online and looked it up. The wiki and the fcc [...]
Today I came across an article on Money Magic in which the author wrote about the cost of smoking cigarettes and stated that quitting could save money. This is obvious. The author implies that people that smoke have less money to pay their bills so they will be slower to pay their bills. I don’t [...]
I ate my first piece of pound cake at my Grandma’s. She always had a pound cake in the house. If I remember correctly they were Chock Full O Nuts. I don’t know if they make them any more, but they were really good. I have always wondered where pound cake got it’s name, as [...]