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Boggle Puzzle: Find Eight Relatives
Exercise your mind by searching for words hidden in the Boggle cube. The more letters the better – plus bonus words to up the ante. Find as many words as you can by linking letters up, down, side-to-side, and diagonally. You may only use each letter box once within a single word. Pay special attention to the Boggle BrainBusters Bonus words! Play with a friend and compare word finds, crossing out common words. Up this week, Boggle find eight relatives.
Is Daughter Caring or Judgmental?
A woman is concerned about her mother’s health choices and expressed her worries to her father. Is the daughter caring or judgmental? See what advice columnist Amy Dickinson thinks. Dear Amy:. I am a woman in my 40’s. I’m very successful in my career and life. My mother is...
More What’s Booming RVA: December 7 to 14
More of What’s Booming in Richmond, Virginia, December 7 to 14, 2023. Find your fill of holiday fun and humor, favorite performances, and events highlighting the history of the season – plus author events, exhibitions, and yeah, even more non-holiday happenings. Boomer Top 5 picks in RVA, browse...
What’s Booming RVA: Holiday Laughs and Lessons
This week, it’s all about the holidays – in a diversity of forms: comedy, history, and two favorite holiday performances. All in “What’s Booming RVA: Holiday Laughs, Performances, and Lessons.”. A Vieri Mieri Fieri Holiday Extravaganza: REDEMPTION (For Charity) Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., at Coalition Theater,...
Herbed Greek Yogurt Dip
When you need a quick snack or an easy appetizer for a group, try this recipe for herbed Greek yogurt dip, the perfect solution. It comes together in just about 5 minutes and is easy to customize. Plus, you can make it ahead. There’s nothing terribly complicated about this recipe,...
‘Hauntingly Beautiful’ Spanish O Cebreiro
A hamlet in northwest Spain hosts pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago, a sixth-century church, the local townspeople, traditional thatched stone houses, and fierce weather. Rick Steves’ Europe takes us to O Cebreiro. Perched on a high ridge, the impossibly quaint hobbit hamlet of O Cebreiro welcomes visitors to...
Jumble Puzzles: Female Author and Soccer Player
Play this week’s Jumble puzzle, with a famous female author and young female soccer player. Unscramble the words and the humorous bonus answer. Start with the Jumble for Kids as a warm-up – or share the challenge with a favorite youngster. Build your brain. Mental exercises and games,...
Amazon One Medical Health Care
The Amazon One Medical unit has launched an on-demand virtual health care service for Prime members for $9 per month or $99 annually. Amazon One Medical membership allows Prime members to add up to five additional members for $6 per month or $66 annually. The service includes video chats with licensed providers as well as an in-app “Treat Me Now” feature to address common concerns such as cold and flu symptoms, skin issues, allergies, and urinary tract infections, Amazon said.
Is Travel Insurance Worthwhile?
A reader wonders, is travel insurance worthwhile? Emma Patch of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance considers the question, primarily considering flight cancellations. Question: International flights are so expensive these days. Is it worth buying travel insurance if for some reason I can’t make a flight?. Answer: If you’re mainly worried...
Books for Cooks, Holiday Edition
These books for cooks are recommended by an experienced chef and cookbook writer. Diane Rossen Worthington appreciates the diversity of home chefs, with information and recipes on curry, cheese, rice, cocktails, and more. As holiday gift-giving rolls around, I like to share my picks for books I’ll give to my...
54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child
A teenager is distraught that her 54-year-old mother wants another child, despite opposition from her father and both offspring. See what advice columnist Amy Dickinson has to say. Dear Amy:. At 54, my mother, already blessed with two academically accomplished children in the eighth and 12th grades, says she wants...
Recognition for Richmond As a Culinary Destination
What do Paris, Barcelona, Charleston, and Richmond have in common? They were among the 10 cities cited by “Essence” magazine as “the best destinations for culinary travel” in 2024. Of Richmond as a culinary destination, the popular lifestyle magazine said, “From fine dining to food trucks, fill your belly with some of the best food in the South and elsewhere.
More What’s Booming RVA: November 30 to December 7
More of What’s Booming in Richmond, Virginia, November 30 to December 7, 2023. Holiday cheer in various forms – lights, historic homes in holiday garb, music, theater, shopping, a parade – plus author events, new exhibitions, documentary film, and more. Boomer Top 5 picks in RVA, browse...
What’s Booming RVA: En Garde!
Sure, ’tis the weekend of RVA Illuminates and the annual Christmas parade, so Boomer highlights five other diverse events that should also be on your radar, in “What’s Booming RVA: En Garde!”. USA Fencing Competitions. Dec. 1 to 4 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond. Catch...
Swan Songs
As we reach what could be the last years of our lives, we are experiencing our “swan songs,” writes Boomer reader Sherrill Pool Elizondo, possibly our final opportunities to try new things, chase rainbows, and tackle the bucket list. She ponders what this realization means to older adults.
Steamed Green Beans Offer a New Twist
Green beans are a standard on many tables, especially during the holidays and when they’re locally fresh in the summer. This Steamed Green Beans recipe uses fresh beans (available year round at most grocery stores) and offers a healthy, delicious alternative to tired green bean casseroles. The genius of...
Eddie Muller’s Case of the Missing Marshmallow Monkey
The host of Turner Classic Movies has written a children’s book that promises to appeal to children – and their TCM-fan parents and grandparents: Eddie Muller’s “Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey.”. If reading bedtime stories to the grandkids is a cherished family...
Stroll Through Rome
Immerse yourself in Italy’s living culture in a stroll through Rome. Be a part of the early evening struscio, at a Vatican mass, in a busy piazza, or at the ancient Pantheon. Travel writer Rick Steves takes us there. Throughout Italy, early evening is time to stroll. As I...
Boggle Brainbusters: Find the Mammals
Exercise your mind by searching for words hidden in the Boggle cube. The more letters the better – plus bonus words to up the ante. Find as many words as you can by linking letters up, down, side-to-side, and diagonally. You may only use each letter box once within a single word. Pay special attention to the Boggle BrainBusters Bonus words! Play with a friend and compare word finds, crossing out common words. Up this week, Boggle to find the mammals.
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