CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
Ruth Peretz was 16 years old.
During the 1990s, legions of kids could quote chapter and verse from 'The X-Files,' the adventures of FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
We have so many questions about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to the National Guard to string razor wire on the state's border with New Mexico, it's difficult to know where to begin.
Dear Doctors: Lately, we've been seeing a lot of ads on TV for a medication to treat thyroid eye disease. My daughter, who is 23, suffers from dry eyes, and now she's sure she has it. What is thyroid eye disease? How do you get it, and how is it diagnosed?
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a 23-yearold who just moved to San Francisco. My dad recently came to visit me, and I was excited because I hadn't seen him in six months. My excitement was dampened once he got here and had nothing positive to say, just complaints the entire time. He hated my apartment, thought it was too exhausting to walk up the hills in the city and didn't like how expensive the city was. I was really frustrated because I've been loving my life here. I found a small apartment that's in a great location and have been really good at budgeting. Despite his complaints, I decided to try and keep a positive attitude and continue to tour him around the city. I don't want our relationship to be strained, and I want him to see that I'm doing well here. How can I address my dad's negativity and help him see the positive side of my new life in San Francisco? — Crack a Smile DEAR CRACK A SMILE: Choose the positive. Thank your Dad for coming to visit you and spending time together. Tell him how much you appreciate his effort. Then move on to recapping what you like about your life as you are establishing independence as a young adult. You can leave it at that, or, if you feel so inclined, you can remind him that you are budgeting well in an expensive city. You are enjoying the beauty that the city has to offer, meeting new people and building your life.
For all his personal eccentricity, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said it best in his 1919 poem 'The Second Coming.' In the wake of Hamas' monstrous atrocity against Israeli civilians, it appears that 'the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are filled with passionate intensity.'
DEAR HARRIETTE: As you probably know and have seen on TV, there is a lot of pressure for college students to go out every weekend, and sometimes even during the week. I used to go out a lot last year, and I met so many people by frequenting the same bar. This year, though, I really do not find it that enjoyable, especially since I have no access to clubs. Not going out is a choice to make against peer pressure, but after ducking plans a lot, it starts to feel like I am missing out.
ST. GEORGES, Grenada — Happy Thanksgiving Day. No turkey, no stuffing, no food coma. No family reunions. No legacy football games. But plenty of joy in the one place in the Western Hemisphere — maybe the one place on the face of the globe — where people unabashedly give ungrudging thanks for the United States, and have done so every October for 40 years straight.
As the violence in the Middle East escalates, attention has focused, and rightly so, on the devastating impact the conflict is having on innocent civilians across the region.