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Violence is never justified, even when it means defending

Q: This flu epidemic has all of us worried. Can our dog or cat catch the flu from one of us if we are sick?

Let's go to the theatre. We’re going to see a play about a woman with a manic-depressive personality and how she and her family cope, and it's a pop-rock musical! Huh?

Q: Michael, our 1-year-old pomeranian mutt, has a few extra teeth. The vet tells us that he never lost some of his baby teeth. Now they want to pull out all of those extra teeth, and I wonder if this is really all that necessary. Should we go along with the vet’s plan? Or can Michael live with a few extra enamels in his mouth?

The Fed pulls out of the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve

Our yard is full of foxtails and I'm worried my dog will get

It's a sad day in the Sontag house. I have had to put our dog,

It can be done. All across America, families are meeting a mighty financial challenge - the challenge of paying college costs with retirement potentially on the horizon. How do they do it? They go about it consistently; they also get creative.

A recent story in the Gilroy Dispatch, Morgan Hill Times and

I am always amazed by the ease with which we can be led to