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Echoes of the Loafers’ Club Meeting
I have tendonitis.
I have tinnitus, too.
No, I have tendonitis.
What?
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. I was at the gas station when a garbage truck pulled in. Those fellows do...
Dear Savvy Senior,
Can you recommend any services that check in on elderly seniors who live alone? I live about 200 miles from my 82-year-old mother and worry about her falling or getting ill and not being able to call for help.
Worrywart Daughter
Dear Worrywart,
There are actually several...
There have been many slow cooker recipe books in the “Fix It and Forget It” series. Phyllis Pellman Good is usually the author but in Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook (2000, Good Books, Intercourse PA) she teams with Dawn J. Ranck. I believe this is the first of the series as the others tend to have...
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
You’ll never guess who I bumped into on my way to the optometrist.
Who?
Everyone.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. I’ve been to Disney World once. It’s supposed to be the...
Dear Savvy Senior,
Last year I received a “notice of change” letter from my Medicare provider. Should I expect another one this year, and what should I do with it?
Medicare Rookie
Dear Rookie,
The letter you’re asking about is actually referred to as the Annual Notice of Change (or ANOC), which...
“Flat-Out, Dirt-Cheap Cookin’” by Bruce Carlson (Quixote Press, Sioux City, Iowa) seems made for today’s grocery shopping. The front of the book announces, “Good Eats Without Spending A Whole Lot of Hard-Earned Money (but the “money” is a picture not text!). The dedication page tell us, “To Mom....
Dear Savvy Senior,
What types of financial resources are available to help seniors pay for long-term care? My 86-year-old mother will need either an assisted living facility or nursing home care in the near future, but she doesn’t have long-term care insurance and her savings are minimal....
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
What have you been up to?
I’ve been building a ship in a bottle.
Wow! How do you get in the bottle?
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. I pressed the button on my garage door...
By Allison Winter
Iowa Capital Dispatchwww.iowacapitaldispatch.com
Over the course of the next year, lawmakers on the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture committees will draft a new federal farm bill that will shape food, farm, conservation and nutrition programs for the next five years.
The...
“Yucatan Cook Book: Recipes & Tales” by Lyman Morton (1996, Red Crane Books, Santa Fe) is an absolute treasure trove of Mexican cooking from the Yucatan Peninsula area of Mexico. The author begins with many pages of his adventures and life-long love of this type of cooking. The cuisine of...