I am obsessed with food. I’m not talking about just eating it, though that is a very important element. I make a weekly menu so I don’t waste food. I have a budget to buy food. I wonder who grows my food. I contemplate how far my food travels. I ponder whether I’m capable of growing my ...

If you are a regular reader of these weekly articles, you might have picked up on my call for vehicle and traffic laws (VTL) to be set nationally, not by each state. There’s a lot to be said for “states’ rights,” but, with such a mobile nation, VTL should be the same in every state. ...

Passover, which commemorates the sorrow of the Jews’ slavery in Egypt and the joy of freedom and deliverance, begins with the traditional Seder meal on April 1. Good Friday comes just two days later, memorializing Christ’s suffering on the Cross, followed by Easter Sunday, celebrating ...

The first thing I notice when I enter the Richard Avedon photo exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is the number of photographs. There are roughly 100 pictures, a surprisingly large amount given the topic and given the artist. - An exhibit about aging - I know Avedon for his fashion ...

Parents have recently been asking me some swell questions about their children having swollen glands. Let me stick my neck out on this one and tell you that swollen glands are simply another term for lymph nodes. - What are lymph nodes? - Lymph nodes are like “storage bins” that ...