School prep tips from Sheila in Maine and household hacks
A reader shares tips for kindergarten readiness including practicing letters with sidewalk chalk, following step by step directions, handling books and supplies, and building a love of learning. Also includes Heloise style household hacks on towel cut cloths toothpaste tube scissor use and storage with hat boxes to organize linen closets.
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Heloise
When a marriage ends for insurance and friendship
A reader asks how to separate from a spouse without losing friendship after a second marriage kept for health coverage. Advice notes a deadline for medical steps, potential for filing, and the difficulty of moving forward while preserving goodwill. The column emphasizes happiness, clear boundaries, and seeking therapy if needed.
Sprinter Trains Hard to Get Career Back on Track
Jacqueline Bigar notes a sprinter who had been losing races must train harder to return to form and get back on track. The column emphasizes determination and potential improvement.
Aries to Pisces Daily Horoscope Snapshot
Aries urges keeping intimate ties warm and understanding motives through empathy. Taurus dives into a project with supportive friends around, planning tonight and the weekend. Gemini energy rises with a willful partner, chances for new ideas. Cancer faces pressure to complete tasks and plan for the weekend. Leo finds practical solutions through a friend’s ideas, dinner with a loved one. Virgo emphasizes basics with a roommate, finances in view. Libra offers risk navigation, calls returning tonight. Scorpio avoids extremes, instincts guide a child matter, shopping tonight. Sagittarius party energy, openness, and relief tonight. Capricorn seeks personal time for renewal, extra rest tonight. Aquarius social hangouts, big-picture shifts, follow friends tonight. Pisces schedule disruption by a boss or elder, one-on-one ties strengthen tonight.
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Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
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Aquarius
Today’s Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Crossword clues list across and down entries from a newspaper puzzle including i KP tool 6 Party animals 10 Skiing mecca 14 Someone Like You singer 15 Montand of film 16 Sgt Snorkel’s dog 17 Unspoken 18 Jaunty 19 Outer garment 20 Rescue squad men 21 Improve upon 23 Sedaka and Simon 24 Old war story 26 Postpone 27 Gasoline rating 29 Wallops 31 Cold shoulder 32 Jungian term 33 Width of a cir 36 Beef 40 Have a mortgage 41 Chief followers 42 Discreet summons 43 Molts 44 Sitting- 46 Chops fine 48 Madrid museum 49 Clutch for one 50 Toucan’s toenail 52 Road map info down clues continue with missing entries
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Sedaka
Simon
Madrid
Puzzle Clue Grid Reveals Themed Wordplay
A compact word puzzle item lists numbered clues from 29 to 58 with entries like Haughty to Margarita ingredient turns him red Twisted the facts Prof Courtroom fic Lionel's sister Aphrodite's lover Parroted Climbed Quid qu us Wilderness cop Raison Clock watcher Entreat helmet safari wear Schlep along Rosamond composer Firm up Beale and Big Band Hardbench Baba.
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Lionel’s
Aphrodite
Safari Wear
Rosamond
Baba
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