Dear Annie: I am still fuming over something that happened a month ago. I was contacted by my son’s high school teacher, alleging that he plagiarized parts of his final term paper. Annie, I coached him through the writing process, making sure he followed through with his outline. It took an agonizing 15 hours over several days. I know he didn’t plagiarize, because I was in the room the entire time and watched him come up with that sentence.

For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children. No one was interested.

Our country has a funny way of promoting health. When a typical American says he is getting healthy, his approach is often to cut “bad” foods or to eat less.