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• Kasiutrella’s Mother (Part One)

This will be my last story dealing with the characters; H.R.H. Princess Karen Sue Cantrell of the Republic of Aquitaine and her fictional daughter Kasiutrella. Naturally, all of which also making this but a tale of fantasy, never to be taken for anything but that which has never seen the light of reality....

• Paula Bohince: “Mother’s Quail”

In the copse of her mind, a fluster of quail, tonic of quail, each her own failure, boozy and flushed from briar by a panic gripped from kin to kin, so they hover— mother and daughter and daughter and daughter— large-bodied, terrified, though nobody wants them. Cloud . . ....

• Deborah Friedell: “King of the Badgers,” review.

The most despised woman in England may be Karen Matthews, a single mother from West Yorkshire. In 2008, Matthews told the police that her nine-year-old daughter, Shannon, had disappeared. Three weeks later, the little girl was found in a nearby flat, hidden in the base of a bed . . . (Subscription required.)...

• How I Got My Kid to Like Walnuts

A mother shares her secret for getting her daughter to eat walnuts. Plus healthy, yummy ways to use this nut....

• Do You Know What Causes White Hair?

It is incredibly frustrating to have a full and rich head of hair, only to discover that your hair is beginning to go white. It may comfort you to know that this is a very common concern with so many people, and they normally will remedy the problem by sticking to a strict regimen of coloring their hair....

• Adam Gopnik: “The Lord of the Rings,” “Twilight,” and young-adult fantasy books.

At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable. “Incoherent and often inaudible” was Kingsley Amis’s verdict . . ....

• Rivka Galchen: “Appreciation.”

Gross income for the daughter in 2007 was $18,150. Gross income for the mother in 2007 was $68,742. Gross income for the daughter in 2008 was $23,450; in 2009, it was $232,476; in 2010, $140,702; and in 2011 $37,853. The mother’s gross . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Will You Inherit Your Mother’s Health Conditions?

Just because your mother had a medical condition, does that mean you will too? WebMD discusses the role of genetics in several health scenarios....

• Karen Blixen’s Father, Wilhelm Dinesen (Boganis), As a Reporter and Writer

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) loved her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845-1895), very much and was devastated when he committed suicide. At that time she was ten years old and felt cramped by the prudish women regime in her family. Her parents were very different, the mother, Ingeborg Dinesen (1856-1939), being very bourgeois and the father somewhat of a rebel and a thrill-seeking adventurer....

• Books: “The Long Song.”

In this absorbing novel, Miss July, an elderly Jamaican woman, sets down her memories of life before and after slavery. The daughter of a white overseer and a field worker, July is snatched from her mother as a child and trained as a lady’s maid in the plantation . . ....

• 20 Under 40 Fiction Q. & A.: Karen Russell.

Karen Russell was featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue. Her story will appear later in the summer. When were you born? July 10, 1981. Where? Miami, Florida. <paragraph . . ....

• Planet SSARG-Homeland (Chapter Three – Part Of – “The Cadaverous Planets”)

Part three of Nineteen . Not sure why he calls these parts, they are really chapters I'd say. I mean they all involve Siren, I think, on this ongoing 19-chapter story of her on planet SSSARG. It is getting a bit more involved I see. I have not read this before, he is taking them off his napkins he had hidden since June, 2005, three months after he came home from Peru. The first 26-chapter...

• Jennifer Chapis: “Rain at the Beach.”

This light makes me think of a house underwater. Because the ocean has corners I cannot stop looking for you. Careful, the red jellyfish washed up onshore sting after they’re dead. My mother said a soul mate is problematic. I imagine a mother and daughter with dripping wet . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Create Patient Comfort With Sheepskin and Organic Cotton

Comfort and prevention of pressure sores are of utmost important to maintaining good health for bedridden patients or those with restricted mobility. One of the best ways to provide the best in comfort is to provide the patient with an alternating pressure mattress that ensures regular movement and change of position to reduce stress on various body parts that might be susceptible to bedsores....

• Pet Loss Comfort – Five Simple Ways to Show You Care

Are you wondering what you can do or say to comfort a friend or family member who has lost a pet? Are you afraid you might accidentally say the wrong thing?...

• Mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease May Boost Your Risk

Having a mother with Alzheimer's disease may boost your risk of getting it more than having a father who suffers from the degenerative brain disorder, new research suggests....

• Redemption – Making Your Automobile Affordable in a Chapter 7

What to do with that "underwater" auto in a chapter 7 bankruptcy? If you live in an area like Northern Michigan, you almost certainly need a vehicle. There might be a way to make it affordable: redemption....

• Goings on About Town: On the Horizon

THE THEATRE LOVE HURTS Jan. 13 “Venus in Fur” is something of a departure for David Ives, who was most recently represented on Broadway with “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.” Classic Stage Company presents the drama, which is based on the erotic novel by the . . ....

• Straight Forward Teeth Whitener Tips

Do you wish you had bright, white teeth? Many people look at their teeth and wish that they were bright and white. A mouth full of bright, white teeth makes for an awesome smile. Here are some methods that you can use at home to clean your teeth, brighten your smile and dazzle everyone around you....

• Colored and White (An Independent Sketch “The Cotton Belt” – 1869)

The War Between the States had been over now for going on four-years, and now a new sport was taking place in Ozark, Alabama, it was called chasing the colored girls, and if they complained, there was only trouble behind closed doors for them. "I know that old man, Ritt, chases your daughter Burgundy around the stores and town and all," said the sheriff to Fanny Lue Jackson, she was the...

• Books: “American Rose.”

Gypsy Rose Lee—burlesque pioneer, literary darling, and American icon—grew up as Rose Louise, the awkward daughter of a stage mother who lied, manipulated, and allegedly murdered to keep her children on the vaudeville circuit. The poisonous relationship between Gypsy and her mother is the center of . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Dana Goodyear: California’s wedding industry cheers the gay-marriage ruling.

As a lawyer in private practice, Vaughn Walker once represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in a suit against the so-called Gay Olympics, and put a lien on the founder’s house as he was dying of AIDS. But the law is full of abrupt reversals, and courtrooms have . . ....

• How My Mother Taught Me About Hygiene

Each year, before school, my Mother and I would make our annual trip to the only clothing store in town. We would purchase the required white shorts, tee shirt and socks to be used for physical education or athletic classes. These articles of clothing would be fresh and clean ready for the grueling sessions of labor waiting....

• Antique Lamps – In Timeless Blue and White

Why is blue and white so popular? Blue & white has been popular for hundreds of years, with its fresh appeal never being out of fashion. It's interesting, but when we speak of blue and white, we nearly always think of blue and white china; i.e., pottery and porcelain. The evolution of this ever popular, blue and white is a fascinating story......

• Books: “City Boy”

White’s second volume of memoirs covers the sixties and seventies, when living in New York was “something like a religious vocation, full of obvious penances and rarefied rewards.” White relished the artistic and social freedom afforded by the city’s isolation from the rest of . . ....

• Arranging Kasiutrella’s First Night (Chapter Two)

Pierre knocked on Kasiutrella's bedroom door; hoping simply to explain what should be effortless, in the form of declaring that though he did like her very much and even think her a beautiful young lady he was involved with her mother; apart from not wanting to take advantage of her youth. Pierre even preparing the words he would say; which included explaining how it would not be long before...

• How to Maintain the Mother-Daughter Bond

As it turns out, keeping the lines of communication open may depend on one primary factor: good old-fashioned listening....

• Pinworms – A Treatable, Parasitic Infection

We receive questions all the time asking for our advice on gastrointestinal problems, both pressing ans severe to general curiosities. A concerned mother recently got in touch with us over her concerns that her daughter might be developing pinworms....