August 7-11 Monday Turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread, green pea salad, strawberry shortcake, low fat milk. Tuesday Beef pot pie, tossed salad, fruit cocktail with bananas, crackers, low fat milk.

There are so many benefits that come with being a pet owner. Pet ownership can provide companionship, comfort, and joy to people. It can also have positive effects on various aspects of health, such as lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress levels, preventing depression and loneliness, increasing fitness and physical activity, and reducing the risk of some illnesses.

The second season of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” just released, reminding me that this show was actually a book first. It’s been a year since I first watched the series, so I decided to refresh my mind by reading the book before watching season two.

This recipe is so simple and can be served for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Tender biscuit dough is tossed in cinnamon sugar, drenched in a buttery brown sugar sauce, and baked to golden brown perfection. If you like cinnamon rolls, you’re guaranteed to love this recipe!

Parents and caregivers should take extra precautions when preparing and packing a school lunch. Flunking in food safety is not an option, especially when children are most vulnerable to foodborne illness.

After Death – Dean R. Koontz Bad Summer People – Emma Rosenblum Birder, She Wrote – Donna Andrews Break of Day – Colleen Coble Burn the Negative – Josh Winning Cassandra in reverse – Holly Smale The Changeling – Victor Lavalle Clive Cussler Fire Strike – Mike Madden The Collector – Daniel Silva Countdown – Lynette Eason Cross Down – James Patterson Cutting Teeth – Chandler Baker Dead Fall – Brad Thor Everyone Here is Lying – Shari Lapena An Evil Heart – Linda Castillo Famous in a Small Town – Viola Shipman Flags on the Bayou – James Lee Burke The Ghost in bone – Mike Carey Godpretty in the Tobacco Field – Kim Michele Richardson Good Husbands – Cate Ray Goodbye Earl – Leesa Cross-Smith An Honest Man – Michael Koryta In Perfect Time – Sarah Sundin Lady Tan’s Circle of Women – Lisa See The Little Village of Book Lovers – Nina George Must Love Flowers – Debbie Macomber Near Miss – Stuart Woods On Fire Island – Jane L. Rosen The Only Purple House in Town – Ann Aguirre Palazzo – Danielle Steel The Paris Agent – Kelly Rimmer Positively, Penelope – Pepper Basham Private Moscow – James Patterson Prom Mom – Laura Lippman The Quiet Tenant – Clemence Michallon A Quitter’s Paradise – Elysha Chang The Rebel King – Gina L. Maxwell The Seven Year Slip – Ashley Poston The Sisters of Glass Ferry – Kim Michele Richardson The Spectacular – Fiona Davis The Summer Girl – Elle Kennedy The Things We Cannot Say – Kelly Rimmer To Have and to Heist – Sara Desai Tom Clancy Flash Point – Don Bentley Two to Tango – Kathleen Fuller Will They or Won’t They – Ava Wilder With Every Letter – Sarah Sundin

Eleven-year-old Charlie Clinton went fishing in a local pond in Edmond, OK recently and got the shock of his young life when he landed a fish with a humanlike toothsome smile. The pacu, a South American relative of the notoriously scary piranha, is known for choppers that look like they’re ready to chew away on a crackling, crispy man-sized meal.

Baseball hero and New York Yankee legend, Casey Stengel, was known for his malaprops such as “when you come to a fork in the road, take it.” But he got it right when he said, “the trick is growing up without growing old.” Want proof? Ask California Angeleno Jim Arrington. He was named the world’s oldest bodybuilder by the Guinness World Records in 2015, when he was 83 years old. He’s 90 years old now and he did it again. The referees at Guinness recently declared that he broke his own record at a recent International Federation of Body Building and Fitness Professional League event in Reno, NV. As Arrington put it “I wanted to be a superhero” and he is indeed a superhero, not only for senior citizens.

Beenie Von Weenie is proof that “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” After years of trying, the dachshund finally was declared The Fastest Wienie of the West! at the 26th Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals at California’s Los Alamitos Race Course. Beenie’s owner, Nicolee Leonard, gleefully told KABC-TV, “Fantastic! I’ve been coming every year. And he nailed it. He won a doghouse and $1,000 and the title.”

Being bored has gained a bad stigma. Everyone is constantly looking for ways to “cure” their boredom and this has led to society as a whole being constantly stimulated. I would even go as far to say that we are all constantly overstimulated. Many of us lead incredibly busy lives, constantly hopping from one task to the next, and when we’re blessed with a little bit of downtime, we pick up our phones, and scroll the boredom away. This may actually be making us more prone to boredom. Technology grabs our attention, but it does that by turning us into objects rather than agents. Instead of sitting down with our thoughts or complex ideas, we’re giving our minds over to a screenand our capacity for willful focus and attention may atrophy through disuse. There’s also an addiction metaphor that’s used: technology messes with our brain, giving us a constant high, and then we need even more stimulation to feel satisfied, to get that fix.