Many Americans are contending with high inflation and haywire housing costs and military members and their families are no exception. Their quest for suitable housing has become more complicated.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month, and November 19 — the Saturday before Thanksgiving — is National Adoption Day, meant to bring awareness, in particular, to the many children in the foster system waiting to be adopted. Like many families who did adopt through the foster system, November 19 is our “Gotcha Day,” the day our child’s adoption was officially formalized in court and the first day we were able to bring him home not as our foster placement but as our fully adopted son.
Eat Crow (1931 South 12th Street, 213-994-1400) serves a taco salad. It's an observation that might otherwise go unsaid, were this a typical Tex-Mex, ground-beef-in-a-tortilla-bowl sort of thing. Eat Crow's version is nothing like that, but is instead an actual salad of tacos.
Thursday 11/17 Bangers and Books
If your idea of a librarian is the shushing spinster depicted in "Marian the Librarian," you clearly need to get out more — or at least visit your local library.
ALTON – Dizziness and imbalance are among the most common complaints in older adults. It’s a growing health concern, as this puts individuals at a higher risk of suffering a fall. It has been estimated that more than 40 percent of adults 40 and over will experience some form of dizziness over the course of a lifetime. In fact, falls are the leading factor for hospital admissions in adults 65 and over. While the underlying causes of dizziness in the elderly are many, it can be associated with functional decline as well as an interruption of daily activities. Rather than expensive medical testing or medication, it may be beneficial to seek a referral to physical therapy for vestibular rehabilitation. The vestibular system, housed in the inner ear, takes the information it receives and processes it to make modifications for eye movements, posture, balance, and orientation in space -- all of which can be addressed by a physical therapist. “It is important that a physical
November 17th marks the 50th anniversary of The Moody Blues album Seventh Sojourn, which, according to bassist/vocalist John Lodge, was inspired by Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Lodge says he and keyboardist Mike Pinder liked the idea of the characters making…