Blue and white ceramics have been made all over the world, from Chinese porcelain to Dutch delft to the cobalt blue decorations on American stoneware. One type, Hirado ware, comes from Japan. Its name comes from the Hirado Domain, which lasted from 1587 until 1871, when the domain system was ...
Dear Annie: I sit here writing to you starting another week much like the past six months of this year: depressed by the way time has altered my life. I’m 76 and married. My routine rarely changes. I wake up, listen to the news and eat breakfast. I straighten up the house and make the bed. I sometimes go shopping or have doctor’s visits. I read, do needlework and pay bills. My family lives 200 miles away, and I talk to them every Sunday. If I don’t, I feel more depressed. Visits from family have lessened since our children have grown and gotten jobs. I feel like crying most of ...
Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum of a road. More than 4.2 million miles of public roads crisscross the lower 48 states — enough to reach the Moon and back almost nine times. This vast network of roads spiderwebs its way across the contiguous U.S., leaving only about 5% as an inventoried roadless area or wilderness. Now, some of those last remaining lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the 2001 Roadless Rule. That includes southeast Alaska’s ...
The year is 2023. Beginning in April and continuing through October, over 7,000 wildfires will burn 18.5 million hectares of Canadian wilderness. Locally, much of June would be dominated by repeated rounds of air quality issues as dangerous, particulate-heavy smoke would move through Pennsylvania. The year is 2026. Beginning in April and continuing through the present day, over 3,000 wildfires have burned over 2.4 million hectares of Canadian wilderness. Locally, the last week of July has served as a reminder of the 2023 smoke season — a term which we must begrudgingly begin to ...
After what we have experienced recently I assure you America will never again hire anyone who would serve as president into their 80s. No blame can go to the founders of our nation who did not feel that it was necessary to put an age limit on the presidency. And then we had the “Joe Biden and Donald Trump combo.” By 2028, we would have had 12 consecutive years of total dysfunction, for various reasons, coming out of the Oval Office. There is virtually no corporation, nor is there any other occupation or career that would allow anyone to work in an official capacity into their ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your column every day. I haven’t seen any information on chronic kidney disease (CKD). There are many articles on the internet about this subject, telling us how to combat it with easy, at-home remedies. Most articles discuss how to cleanse your nephron filters with things such as pumpkin seed oil, cinnamon, etc. I’m a borderline Type 2 diabetic, and I take Jardiance. My last eGFR was 52. My last creatinine level was 1.39 mg/dL. Could you possibly provide me with some useful information on this subject? Is there a simpler way to combat CKD? There are millions ...
