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Every well-seasoned cook knows there are many ways dinner can go wrong. You’re missing a key ingredient. The meat didn’t thaw. Everything is taking a lot longer than you planned.

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Customers of wireless provider T-Mobile US Inc. reported widespread service outages in the U.S. late Monday, according to websites tracking...

I am too practical to ever be cutting-edge fashionable.

Once a year our entire family spends a long weekend together with the highlight being a “talent show.” Talent, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Take the one who asks for volunteers and when his sister, a brother-in-law, a 6-year-old nephew and his own 13-year-old daughter go forward, announces he will guess their weights.

Keyboard player and vocalist Danny Green believes more than sweet harmonies stir listeners when the faith-oriented African American Community Choir sings. He feels that God moves amid the sound to move on hearts.

I don’t want to point fingers or name names, but you-know-who is the reason I shop Costco alone. If someone else goes along, we are likely to be pushing a cart so loaded you can’t see over the top of it.

Do you have a nickname?

My phone is listening. Yours is, too, but you probably knew that.

The symbols for the New Year, Father Time and Baby New Year, are polar opposites on the age spectrum.

One of our granddaughters just asked if I knew Merriam-Webster announced their word of the year.