Raspberries are good for ya. Of this much, we can be certain. Dark chocolate though? That’s a slightly more contentious situation. The relative healthiness of dark chocolate depends on the cycle of the moon, the cost of bananas in Costa Rica and the ferocity of the wind through my salt […]
This story is told in partnership with Smarty Pants Vitamins. In the end it will be known as the picture that saved my life. We were together on a press trip, on the Florida panhandle, offseason but still seasonably pleasant enough for time spent relaxing on the finely crushed quartz […]
The internet tells me that people are not only making a New Year’s resolution for this New Year but that they are picking words for 2018; a single word in some cases or an entire sentence crammed together devoid of spaces like a social media hashtag. Others are simply doing […]
I made mention of it yesterday, the whole Whole Life Challenge thing. My oldest brother pushed me and middle bro to join him, we did, and now we’re off on a 6-week game to best each other. Today it begins, the Whole Life Challenge, and it began, for me, with […]
We’re instructed to do it every time we fly. In the unlikely event cabin pressure is lost in flight, affix your own oxygen masks before assisting others. The benefits of this are obvious but not something we parents would naturally do first, not without the stern yet friendly reminder while […]
I’ve been big my whole life. Too big. Uncomfortably big. Unhealthily big. You get the point. That was then. This is now. I’m taking steps at home to become a healthy dad. Big steps. I write for a living which by definition, save for those who dare rock a treadmill […]
Every year something changed and so, every year we had to re-enroll and make brand new or validate prior choices regarding our healthcare coverage. I’d then spend the next 12 months fumbling through the differences between co-pay and deductible, max limits, preventative versus sick visits and dreading needing to go […]
It might seem weird, what with a ship featuring an IMAX theater, a SkyRide, a soccer pitch billiards table (that’s right) and Guy’s Burger Joint outpost that one of my favorite spots on board the Carnival Vista was across from room 6341: the launderette. Maybe (er, probably) I’m a bit […]
