A gentle reader chided me over my column about things that annoy me. Among other annoyances, I wrote about professional athletes with unkempt hair and beards and about women who wear expensive jeans with rips and tears in them. The reader reminded me that people
I have a confession. While growing up I never saw eye to eye with my father. If I wanted to go South to Baltimore he wanted to go North to New York. If I was voting the Democratic slate he was sure to be voting
Not all of my columns make it into print. I have ideas that are like the little engine that could, huffing and puffing at the station raring to go. I can’t quite get up enough steam to send them churning down the tracks. Often what seems
I was starving and bored. I couldn’t wait for warm weather. All month I had been thinking of nothing but food and shopping. So, the minute I was released from Doylestown Hospital, a great hospital if you’re sick, I started thinking about food and shopping. Start
My mother died when she was eighty-eight years old. She was quite a woman. She was very bright and way ahead of her times. She embraced "feminism and liberated viewpoints" long before they were in vogue. Mom was a "flapper," smoked in public and was not
Chicken salad, chicken salad, and more chicken salad… There’s nothing better for a picnic or for that barbecue when you’re looking for something to complement those ribs or burgers you’re grilling. It’s amazing how you can change a basic chicken salad recipe with just the
For the past two plus years there have been some six thousand investigations into whether or not President Trump colluded with “Vladimir Baby” vis à vis the 2016 Presidential election. Now that the Mueller investigation appears to have ended there are several members of the
Have you noticed The Clinical Trial Center in Jenkintown? They’re a different kind of advertiser. In concert with a variety of pharmaceutical companies and the help of study volunteers, they work to develop cutting edge medications for some of the most serious of ailments plaguing
Salads and more salads… I guess that means bathing suit weather is approaching. Yikes! When you’re prepping the salads, check your market’s vegetable case for already cut/shredded prepared veggies. It will save you time and energy, and make things easier for you. Take advantage of today’s
All the contentious political talk, all the surplus of disturbing news that fills the airways was swept away at the end of March when umpires in fifteen cities yelled “Play Ball,” the first time since 2011 all thirty major league teams were in action on
