Regarding "Risque Business" (Baylife, Oct. 30): I have to say this article made me a little sick. From what I have seen over the past number of years, from the time little girls are any age at all, the parents are dressing them like little hookers. And if I look around I see pre-teen and early teen girls dressed the same way. Then there is what they see on TV and the movies. ...more

November 6, 2007

How did internationally known contemporary pianist Jim Brickman come to give a workshop for local piano students and teachers at the Music Showcase in Brandon? ...more

October 31, 2007

The country's leading pediatricians group is making its strongest push yet to have all children screened for autism twice by age 2, warning of symptoms such as babies who don't babble at 9 months and 1-year-olds who don't point to toys. ...more

October 29, 2007

A meal at the Cherry's on Bloomingdale Avenue is what started Jill Canavan, 31, on the road to becoming a restaurateur. ...more

October 24, 2007

A year ago, Michelle Bradley-Carley, now 35, found a lump in her left breast. It was Stage 3 breast cancer, the worst kind. All of a sudden, she went from being a happy newlywed and young mother to a woman dealing with a complicated, potentially fatal disease. When you're a young mom, nauseated and exhausted from chemotherapy, how do you tell your toddler you can't play? How do you explain that one day you have breasts and that the next, the doctor will remove them? ...more

October 21, 2007

Marie Gilmore, 32, Lithia Height: 5-foot-8 Starting weight: 265 Current weight: 165 Why I did it: Basically I was a mom to two children and had a business and husband and house and family. Everything was really good in my life, but there was this one thing I couldn't handle and get control of that made me feel less than successful: my weight. ...more

October 18, 2007

For some people, potty training is a breeze. I once met a mom who told me that her daughter just decided at 20 months that she wanted to go on the potty and that was it. I think I had a more typical experience. I had to hunker down for a full week until my eldest would go on the potty, and it took a couple more weeks to get her out of diapers during the day, followed by a month or two before she could wake up dry. For me, it was a lot of work. ...more

October 11, 2007

Jordan Schilit is the No. 2 runner for Jesuit, behind Connor Revord. What do you like best about running cross country? ...more

October 11, 2007