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You can pry my Salisbury steak Swanson TV dinner patty from my cold, dead hands.

There's definitely something in this - there's a reason my generation (mid-40s - where did that come from?) isn't going to live as long as my...

Arriving early for a visit with my doctor I overheard her pleading with a patient on the phone: drink less, smoke less, eat less, exercise. Seems...

I doubt that math works in the US. US Healthcare has very different costs and economics. Throw in a very large fat tail for health expenditures in...

My son completed his cross country flight last night. He flew from Corpus to Indianapolis with three legs in each direction. He spent Friday and...

We drove up into the Bighorns yesterday to escape the heat. We stopped at Meadowlark Lake and worked up the feeder stream with our flyrods but only...

Processed food, cigs and don't forget the millions(hundred?) that live a completely sedentary lifestyle. An active body is one of the best things you...

I have vague recollection of a government study done in the 90s on the costs of smoking in an Eastern European country, perhaps the Czech Republic. ...

I’d like to hear that. A bunch of live recordings on YT have me interested in Glenn’s approach to drumming and his adaptations for different venues...

Yes, they sounded great. Wolf Trap is a wooden amphitheater, so even if it’s placebo effect, you can imagine for a hot minute you’re inside a giant...

Uncrustables are a staple on deployments. You don't always get a chance to eat while the chow lines are open, but we kept a small fridge filled with...

Another story, Spaghetti-O’s. You can’t just put pasta and tomato sauce in a can because the acidic sauce will dissolve the pasta into mush after...

For a brief period I was employed by a company that built commercial food plants. When Smuckers came up with Uncrustables they could not make them...

Sardinia is a blue zone, where the number of centenarians is unusually high. Back on topic, Mom would cut the crust off the WonderBread...

- Each morning at around 6:15 little Stevie and I go for a longish walk around Fountain Hill Cemetery. It’s a green space about two blocks from our...