Lifestyle

Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: I am 76. My husband and I planned our final wishes for cremation because I have had a lifelong fear of being buried underground.

Yellow Wart, Yellow Patches, or Yellow Dust Amanita. The Amanita flavoconia mushrooms are very common east of the Rocky Mountains. They surface late spring to early summer after rains. The cap is orange- yellow with small yellowish flaky patches. The stem is white to light yellow and the base ends in a small bulb. The spore print is white. To identify this schroom, look for bits of powdery universal veil still attached to the base of the stem.

Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law is an attention-seeker. She’s very loud and talks in a baby voice so that everyone looks at her.

To Your Health DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recently published column, you stated, “As always, the decision belongs to the patient,” while addressing a concern about the benefits and risks of stopping a statin drug.

Dog owners are likely familiar with the respiratory disease commonly known as kennel cough; while most cases have been historically mild, a more severe form of the infection is on the rise. Because kennel cough is actually an infectious respiratory disease complex that easily spreads among dogs, Dr.

Among many other things, May was National Foster Care Month, and earlier last month some area folks held a chili cookoff at 903 Brewers in Sherman to benefit the Grayson County Child Welfare Board. The event raised about $20,000 with business sponsorships, tasting tickets, and auctions.

To Your Health DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old man.

Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are in our early 70s. We have been married seven years.

The best way to garden green is to work with Mother Nature as much as possible. The weather is always controlling everything about our gardening activities. Just in the last few years we have had some of the worst freezes in history and are still waiting to see if some of our plants will survive. In most years recently it has become the norm instead of abnormal where we go from winter to summer and skip right over springtime. That is so stressful on the plants, and they will need extra TLC to help them thrive. The following are suggestions for “going green” in our gardens.

Historically, hope has been called the belief that good things will happen in the future. However, in the social sciences, hope is more about the ability to generate alternative pathways toward one’s goals and believing in one’s capabilities to achieve those goals.