by Sandy Coughlin The Reluctant Entertainer Our friends were coming for dinner, a last-minute invite. I didn’t know what to make! Immediately my mind froze up. I couldn’t think what to make for dinner, and I became anxious. Does this ever happen to you? I’ve learned to take a different […]

By Evergreen, Oregon writer, This week America saw the dramatic rescue of several people saving a man under a burning car.   I finally saw the video and just loved to see this brave woman helping out with everyone else which to me typifies the wonderful American woman of courage.   Lifting […]

4-year-olds did worse in thinking skills after watching the cartoon, study says. By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter HealthDay News— Fast-paced TV shows like “SpongeBob SquarePants” seem to negatively affect children’s concentration levels shortly after watching it, while slower-paced shows don’t, a new study suggests. “We found that young children who […]

Moments for Mom By Elisabeth K. Corcoran Author of He Is Just That Into You Kevin Leman in Have a New Teenager by Friday – not that I need a new teenager by Friday or anything…totally reading this for entertainment purposes only – talks about three kinds of parenting styles. […]

by Joy Dombrow Oregon Writer Just a step past the golden years of parenting (the age between 5 and 10), both of my kiddos are firmly in the years preceding teenage-hood. The tween years, they call them. Simply the word, “tween” conjures up images of the idolization of iconic young […]

By Erika Weisensee, Oregon Mom When I was in my 20′s, I was always hanging out with friends—planning weekend trips, going out to eat, sitting in coffee houses and chatting for hours. Before that, my high school years revolved around a handful of close friendships; today, the friendships I made […]

Breast cancer survivor shares her struggle to encourage other women KMTR-TV Morning News anchor Springfield, OR In my line of work, I get the opportunity to meet some amazing people. A woman by the name of Teresa is one of them.  But call her T., that’s what she prefers.  T. […]

by Jen Rouse The Short Years A couple of weeks ago the editor of my local newspaper (a man I like, and respect, and whom I happily worked with for five years) wrote an editorial about home gardening. After a few sentences in which he damned gardeners with faint praise, […]

9/11 a Life-Defining Day for the Young By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay News HealthDay News– Mallory Ham had just arrived at her first-grade class when the hijacked planes with their terrified passengers ripped into the World Trade Center. Though her recollections of that day are incomplete, they’re burned into her memory […]

Well, the famous “I love you” dog of You Tube fame has attracted over 55 million views and has become an internet sensation. This is the dog that barks the words “I love you”. Now, we have the Today Show bringing the dog in studio to see for themselves. It […]