In addition to my regular annual checkup with Dr. N, yesterday was my annual eye exam. This was no accident; when Dr. N schedules appointm...

Sunday morning I went to the emergency room. It wasn’t anything life or death. I had sliced my finger the day before while making lunch. (...

I had much to be thankful for this year at Thanksgiving. First of all, I’m thankful that I am able to afford retirement. I’m thankful we w...

After Anett, I wanted to try again for a student from South America, and we found Eric, from Chile. Our first few students had to be picke...

When the Byrds recorded Renaissance Fair in 1967, the first Renaissance Fair in the United States, in California, was only four years old...

When I was growing up, my parents had one income, five kids and no spare cash. It was just understood that once you hit eighteen, you were ...

I used to love to bake. I learned to bake bread when I was in graduate school, and home-baked bread was often the only bread I could affor...