DEAR DR. ROACH: How is “wet brain” (or Wernicke encephalopathy, WE) diagnosed? My son has been in the hospital, a rehab facility, and now an assisted living facility. Is there hope that he may walk again? He does not have any motivation and stays in bed most days playing on his phone. He ...

Bridge is essentially a game of logic. The more keenly a player reasons, the better he will do. General rules can be memorized and are certainly helpful, but they can easily be misapplied. Take this case where it is easy to go wrong. South wins East’s nine of spades with the king and ...

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On a cold winter day, nothing soothes the body like a bowl of hot chicken soup. One of my go-to ingredients in soup is carrots, and before I can enjoy the warmth, I must experience the cold. That’s because the carrots planted last season need to be dug from the garden if they are going to ...

After receiving a poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) for Christmas and having unintentionally killed every one I have ever owned in the past, I decided that I should at least attempt to learn how to keep this one healthy — possibly encouraging it to bloom again next Christmas. Native to ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy these excerpts from one of the respected civil rights leader’s most memorable and enduring writings, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” He wrote this while in that city’s jail after being arrested for ...