The Place to Take a Humor Break
If you’re a baby boomer, chances are you were fed a certain amount of misinformation while growing up. Sometimes, it was a supposed fact our parents thought was true. Or they just said whatever it […]
Talk about the proverbial horns of a dilemma. Research suggests that marrying an intelligent woman helps protect a man from dementia. Another study, however, says that men are terrified of smart women. Don’t you just […]
There’s never a shortage of things to laugh about in the Jones household, whether from the mishearing that comes with being over 60, the seemingly innate male affliction known as refrigerator blindness (which also occurs […]
Who comes up with this stuff? As a writer who specializes in health and medicine, I’ve learned about some pretty unusual medical conditions. But the new International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition, Clinical Modification—affectionately known […]
Once upon a time, when we boomers came of age, there were basically two types of places we could get a drink or buy booze: at a bar or a packie (a New England colloquialism […]
When we buried my mother’s ashes, my sister and I tucked a pack of cigarettes into the urn vault. Mom literally had been a diehard smoker—she died of complications from COPD—and we figured she’d be […]
If you watch TV, you know what I’m talking about: the relentless barrage of ads for prescription and over-the-counter medications to treat virtually every condition known to (wo)man. In fact, the Nielsen Company estimates there’s […]
At midlife, sometimes I feel like a car that’s out of warranty – that point at which things inevitably start to go awry. You know – leaks, lubrication problems, excessive overheating, smoke from the tailpipe, […]
If you’re a baby boomer, you first knew SPAM® as that slime-covered meat product in the blue can. Since Al Gore invented the Internet, however, we’ve become all too well acquainted with the truly inedible […]
You can’t make this stuff up. The weird stuff that some scientists choose to study never ceases to amaze me (and provide blog fodder). Here’s some research that may having you shaking your head—either in […]