Are you a dog person? I love dogs, but I also have allergies to their fur and dander, so I have to measure my interaction with some breeds. What I still marvel at is how dogs are everywhere these days. You see them in airports and on planes and in stores everywhere. I went to a beach last ...
Do you enjoy cooking? I come from a family of excellent cooks on my mom's side with my grandmother and great aunts renowned for their baking skills. My mom and her sister inherited those skills with Mom's pie crust still being the best I've ever tasted (flaky but not dry) and my aunt's cinnamon ...
Do you ever feel anxious? Anxiety is strange phenomenon defined as "a natural, future-oriented emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like a racing heart." Another definition says it is the body's natural response to stress. I never thought about ...
Back in late September 2014, then Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had some advice for fans upset the team had started slowly at 1-2. "Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X," Rodgers said in a radio invterview. "Relax. We're going to be OK." My ...
Next week will mark our fourth wedding anniversary, and time sure does fly when you're having fun! We got married late in life (in our 50s) and both for the first time, so our lifelong friends who got married in their 20s and 30s and are by now (and their own admission) "old married couples" ...
What's your favorite month of the year? Mine has nothing to do with weather but everything to do with auto racing and Memorial Day weekend. For me, the month of May is my favorite. I have been a fan of the Indianapolis 500 my entire life and have gone to the race in person every year except ...
