Word: mother
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...Takes Care of Mom?" [Feb. 1]: Francine Russo should not beat herself up for not being around more when her mother's health was failing. Most of us do not have the Cleavers or the Bradys for relatives. "Family craziness" is a major reason people move away in the first place. When my mother's health started deteriorating, one of my sisters chose to take on the caregiving burden. Being separated geographically was my decision, made years beforehand. No one will make me feel guilty for not dealing with relatives I don't like being around...
...lucky daughter: I got to be the final caregiver for both my parents. For almost 12 years I cared for them and handled their affairs. My mother passed away four years ago, and 13 months later my father passed away--in my home, with the wonderful assistance of hospice. I always kept my sisters, who were not able to move to help our parents in the way I did, informed about the true medical condition of our parents, and they have always recognized and appreciated what...
...boxes don't just create tent cities. They build communities. Within an hour of the tents' going up, a mother starts hanging laundry lines and someone else sets up a minishop. Kids like the crayons and coloring books, which bring back a degree of normality...
...husband's skull with a heavy lead ornament. Four days later, police discovered his rotting corpse, wrapped in a carpet in the basement storeroom of the luxury apartment complex where the couple lived. An autopsy found a cocktail of sedatives in his stomach and liver. The 39-year-old mother of three was accused of giving her husband a sedative-laced milk shake before clubbing him to death, and in 2005, Kissel was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life. In her first appeal, which she lost, the court called it "as cogent a case of murder as might...
...Along with New Year's Eve and Mother's Day, Valentine's Day is one of the most profitable days of the year for dining establishments; seven other calendar days, including Super Bowl Sunday, have already been granted blue-law exemptions in some states. "We felt like Valentine's Day had just been overlooked," says Missouri State Representative Bill Deeken. In January, Deeken proposed "Love Legislation" that would allow restaurants and bars that lacked annual Sunday liquor licenses to be open and sell alcohol on Valentine's Day. Rob Agee, a Lohman...