Bungee jumping. Cliff-diving. Bull riding. Using expired milk in your cereal. Each of these requires a fearlessness few possess. As Jerry Seinfeld said: "You ever have milk the day after the day?...
At 11 years old and weighing only 87 pounds, Ann would look in the mirror and see herself as 140 pounds. She was restricting her food intake, eating only cereal at breakfast and one small plate o...
Excluding breakfast, I consider a meal without a glass of wine to be a missed opportunity. I think of wine as an enhancement of food and a simple way to improve almost all victuals.
Not every w...
Near the end of last year, I wrote a couple of columns in which readers complained about the service they received from the Social Security Administration. After that column ran, I predictably got...