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Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Everything you need to know about Paperwhites

Helen Chesnut's Garden Notes: Everything you need to know about Paperwhites

These indoor bulbs can be planted from September into early December. Earlier plantings take five to six weeks to bloom, but as the planting season progresses, the bulbs take less and less time to flower.
Ask Lisi: Parent of sick child is stretched too thin to help friend

Ask Lisi: Parent of sick child is stretched too thin to help friend

Advice: Once yor child has recovered, you can invite your friend for a visit if she still needs help.
Your Good Health: Itchiness, pain and desperation after shingles

Your Good Health: Itchiness, pain and desperation after shingles

As a general rule, the older a person is when they develop shingles, the more likely they are to develop postherpetic neuralgia.
Doctors seek end to sick-note requirement for short illnesses

Doctors seek end to sick-note requirement for short illnesses

The Canadian Medical Association says the notes are taking up too much of physicians’ time during a shortage of family doctors.
October 29: Your Daily Horoscope

October 29: Your Daily Horoscope

Tuesday, October 29th ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Everyone has secrets – yes, even an open and straightforward Aries – and it seems there is something you are desperately trying to hide from family and friends.
Ghosts, costumes and carving pumpkins: the roots of Halloween customs

Ghosts, costumes and carving pumpkins: the roots of Halloween customs

During the Celtic festival Samhain, people wore costumes to fool evil spirits — a tradition that continues at Halloween, says Camosun College instructor Nicole Kilburn.
A fresh pumpkin becomes comfort food in this Creamy Pumpkin Mac and Cheese

A fresh pumpkin becomes comfort food in this Creamy Pumpkin Mac and Cheese

Few people can resist a creamy, rich stovetop mac and cheese. This one has a bonus dose of colour, texture and nutrition thanks to roasted pumpkin and onions, blended right into the pasta. It’s total fall comfort food.
Mark Bittman turns his attention to the small chefs in your household with a cookbook for kids

Mark Bittman turns his attention to the small chefs in your household with a cookbook for kids

NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Bittman has taught us how to cook everything — how to bake and grill, prepare fish and vegetarian meals and do it fast. This fall, he's targeting a different kind of home chef — the little ones.
Mark Bittman's recipe for a gooey, melty, kid-friendly grilled cheese sandwich

Mark Bittman's recipe for a gooey, melty, kid-friendly grilled cheese sandwich

Smushing a cheese sandwich in the pan leaves you with a crisp outside and gooey inside.
Cheesy stromboli packs pizza-like flavors into a portable spiral

Cheesy stromboli packs pizza-like flavors into a portable spiral

Like the calzone, a stromboli is a sort of portable pizza — fillings are enclosed in dough and baked — but more often than not, stromboli is cylindrical.