With summer upon us, parents are hot to ask me about sun protection for their children. Let me see if I have any bright ideas on this topic. First, it is important to remember that there is no such thing as a healthy suntan. One blistering sunburn on a child’s sensitive skin will ...

“The Merry Month of May” was the title of a poem written by someone named Thomas Dekker in 1599. I don’t know what May 1599 was like for Good Old Tom, but for me in 2025 it was anything but merry. Looking back, I see it as grey, cold, rainy, and about as merry as a five-mile funeral ...

It wouldn’t be the beginning of summer if I or a family member didn’t find a tick crawling on our body. It may be our love for the outdoors or that the local deer think my puppy is a fawn. (We were most recently followed on a walk by a young doe who wanted to play with our pup.) We make ...

When I announced that I was excited to go roller skating, the teens laughed. Shaking their heads, one conceded, “Well, maybe it will be fun in a retro way ... You know, like reliving your childhood.” Maybe they had a point. Growing up in Chatham, New York, we were lucky enough to have ...