Ana Veciana-Suarez: A different way to satisfy an appetite

If the Food Network is hunting for its No. 1 fan, I suggest executives stop at my house to interview The Hubby. He watches more of its programs than anything else on TV, including reruns of our mutual fave, NCIS, and the endless stream of fishing shows that teach which spoon lures to use in skinny, weedy water.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Mom of accused bombers should stop making excuses

One of the strangest scenes to come out of the Boston Marathon bombings is the discomfiting image of an angry Zubeidat Tsarnaev defending her two sons, the dead and the living.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Nothing like the thrill of the (bargain) hunt

That red and black wrap-around dress in my closet? Paid $9.01, taxes included, a victory of timing, perseverance and the clever matching of coupon to clearance sale. Original price: $79.99. Gotta love it.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: After the Boston marathon bombing, focus on the heroes

Amid the bedlam, terror and despair, we must focus on this. We must never forget this: Goodness still abounds. Courage is plentiful. People can be, and often are, heroes.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Forget one-size-fits-all solution to work-family balancing act

This is a column I long resisted writing. Resisted when a high level State Department official left her job and wrote a controversial piece for The Atlantic magazine headlined “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” Resisted when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered her telecommuting employees back into the office and earned the wrath of working mothers. Resisted when Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg encouraged women to “lean in” on their way to the top and received a surprisingly harsh blowback for her efforts. I even dug in my heels — no way am I going to pen another sentence about this tired debate! — when Princeton alumna Susan Patton wrote a letter to her alma mater’s student newspaper advising women to find a husband before they graduate.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Valerie Harper’s prognosis prompts end-of-life pondering

Maybe it’s my age, time galloping at breathtaking speed after the mid-century mark, or the news that two people I know received a dismal health prognosis in the past two weeks. Whatever the prompt, I find myself musing about a subject often ignored.

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Ana Veciana-Suarez: What, you don’t like leftovers?

My refrigerator is full. Actually it’s stuffed, each shelf brimming with plastic containers, food-storage bags, jars and cans. In this land of abundance, I have more than plenty, and in a world with so much need, that makes me lucky. Very.

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Failure is a great teacher

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. - Bill Gates

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Ana Veciana-Suarez: Daylight Savings Time is an avoidable annoyance

Dang! My body is totally out of whack. It’s tired when it should be busy and twitching for action when it should be sleeping. Double dang that Daylight Savings Time!

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Ana Veciana-Suarez: Refusal to perform CPR defies explanation

The 9-1-1 call between an emergency dispatcher and a nurse at a California retirement home is so chilling, so horrifying, I had to listen to it twice to make sure I had heard right — it so defied the most basic tenets of compassion and human decency.

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Ana Veciana-Suarez: Caregiving is an endurance race

Caregiving is exhausting. Grueling. Draining. Wearing. Simply strenuous.