Some of you may remember the movie “Smile” from 1975, a satire on beauty pageants, during which one contestant proves her talent onstage by showing how to pack a suitcase. “Also, so your shampoo and ...

Some of you know that I have this pesky ailment called cancer, which has annoyed me for four years now. Now, the good news is that it hasn’t killed me. The bad news is that it refuses to go away. The ...

Being in the hospital is as much fun as a barrel full of monkeys, don’t you agree? That is, if the monkeys are attacking you day and night with sharp needles, waking you up so they can ask you how ...

Well, here we are again. The holidays have crept up on us and we’re about to spend a possibly extended period of time with our blood relatives. “Blood” being the operative word here, and hopefully ...