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I’m Gluten-Free.  No, it’s not contagious.  Or at least that’s what doctors say.  But somehow I gave it to my kids. The hardest part of the condition is missing beer.  This beverage is traditionally made from barley, a manly grain.  Just the name sounds as if it grows hair.  Barley.  Problem is, it’s packed full […]

I’m so old, I can remember when furniture came already made.  Once, I bought an entire coffee table and all I had to do was place it in front of a sofa.  I didn’t suffer through a dictionary-sized instruction booklet, pondering the meaning of illustrations of stick figures and arrows.  No counting hardware to ensure […]

And just so we don’t forget, manufacturers stick bright orange labels on their products to protect us from ourselves.  Because in their absence, who knows what we’d do after microwaving that frozen broccoli and ham Stromboli TV dinner?  Without the CAUTION: Filling may be hot sticker, that possibility may not cross our minds.  After all, […]

My daughter loves training dogs.  She devours manuals by the shelf-full, some translated from languages I can’t even pronounce, and then practices her craft on our pet, Peanut.  At the end of any given day, I’ll pull into the driveway to find her maneuvering the white fluff-ball among an obstacle course of poles, benches, and […]

Really? School’s out? Again? How can we expect our kids to pay for our social security if they can never get an education? Although I am an Eastern Shore native, our family thrived for over a decade at the base of the Colorado Rockies. There, echoes of the spirits of pioneers calling them westward over […]