Lifestyle, food and health articles
What Are Your Kids in College Eating? Couch pizza, convenience store chili dogs, and every kind of fast food imaginable, such as fried chicken that’s more “fried” than chicken, roast beef sandwiches with enough beef to choke a starving tiger, and 1,000 calorie milk shakes…that’s …
(Written by a 51-year old as if he were eleven) There I was, two weeks ago, wasting the day away playing video games with friends, hanging at the pool, sleeping in and generally not having a care in the world. Then it happened…school happened, and …
So, your elderly parent(s) lives over three hours from you and you’re more than a bit worried about their well-being. Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. 34 million Americans are the primary caregivers for an elderly parent and, of that number, over 5 million live …
What the heck are the “dog days” of summer and where did that term originate? Well, avid readers, I am not only paid exorbitant amounts of money to write these blogs, I am also expected to do a bit of research too. The term comes …
If you remember, valued readers, last week we discussed some ideas for summer fun WITH the kids, which goes a long way to explain the topic of this week’s post. As a father of two tween boys (yes, “tween” is a new, 21st century life …
That’s correct, summer fun WITH the kids. It is possible. Although, the topic of my next post will be summer fun WITHOUT the kids (boy, that was a hell of a teaser, wasn’t it?). Anyway, if left to their own devices, most kids will spend …
Well, by now, if you have school-aged children, your family should be well into its summer vacation and all the chaos and boredom that comes with it. The “get up, get ready for school, go to school, attend after-school activities, then eat dinner routine”, as …
Of course, the seniors to which I refer in the title are those of the “well-aged” variety rather than those who are about to enter their last year of high school or college. As discussed in too much detail in my last post, summer in …
It’s just a fact of life: as we age we become less, shall we say…agile, nimble, sprightly, dexterous…choose any synonym for quick and spry you like, we simply don’t move the way we used to. We also develop certain ailments that require certain medications and …
It seems that many people believe that some sort of special diet with exotic foods is required to “eat healthy.” We go out of our way to locate and drive to so called specialty stores to find strange foods that we discovered in some online …