Add comfortable treads to protect your feet I sail an older Macgregor 26 Classic. I love it in every way. Every way but one: it came with a swim ladder made of 1" chrome tubing that just kills my feet. Adding insult to injury, the ladder doesn't reach deep enough into...
As a kid I was always up at dawn. Every day was an adventure and I was eager to get started. I’d teeter downstairs and join my dad, who was inevitably sitting in his boxers, leaning on his elbows, updating his to-do lists in his back-slant lefty handwriting....
Mary Avery grew up on a prehistoric dome of salt in the middle of the Louisiana marsh. It was a huge hill: six miles around, with caves 50,000 feet deep. It belonged to her parents, so naturally she wasted no time escaping it. In the early 1800s Mary was happily swept...
Thanksgiving gluttony skidded right past Christmas indulgence and T-boned into New Year’s revelry. Cookies and cocktails everywhere every day. I can’t say no to them. That’d be rude. So here am I, as wide as I am tall, psyching myself up for another annual New Year...
As Food & Spirits magazine celebrates its 10th year of persnicketiness and gluttony, I offer my congratulations to Erik the Publisher. In his honor I’ve come up with a top ten list of food fads from the last ten years that are now as popular as Bart Simpson...
“Tang: breakfast of astronauts!” cried the TV ad. Nope. Tang was never any part of their breakfast. Most astronauts couldn’t stand the stuff. Buzz Aldrin once said bluntly, “Tang sucks.” Tang was concocted by Dr. William A. Mitchell—for General Foods, not NASA. In the...
Mary Avery grew up on a prehistoric dome of salt in the middle of the Louisiana marsh in the early 1800s. It was huge: six miles around and with caves 50,000 feet deep. It belonged to her parents, so naturally she wasted no time escaping it. As a young woman Mary was...
At seven years old I learned the Earth spins along on its axis at 1,040 miles per hour. So of course I wondered: if I jump high enough, will I come down in a different spot? Obviously I should, because the Earth is moving under my feet, and if I step off of it, the...
On a recent trip to Hawaii’s Big Island, I was introduced to the traditional bowl of raw ahi stirred up with soy sauce and sesame seeds, called poke. Although it looked like an exposed brain, I fell instantly in love with its decadent healthiness. Bonus: Having just...
I had been married once before. It was a long time ago. We got pregnant 18 months later. I don’t goof around. The hospital where we were scheduled to deliver insisted we take a childbirth class. There were four sessions, one per week. We joined six other couples of...