Back in the day before the double shot of food allergies – mine to pork and Big Guy’s to garlic – my grandmother’s baked beans recipe was a go-to potluck recipe.
Based on canned pork and …
Once in a while a child is born with such preternatural patience that it puts the adults around him to shame.
In the case of Boots, the trait has to be the result of genetic mutation. …
The newest marketing pitch from Disney on its “Baby Einstein” line, since the old one has gone down in legal flames: The DVDs are about “fostering parent-child interaction.”
Of course they always have been, a Disney …
There are picky eaters, there are picky eaters who border on neurotic and there are wannabes.
Big Guy’s the neurotic type. Part of it has to do with his food allergies, but mostly it’s …
I understand Republicans a little less every day.
Government-funded public health insurance: Bad. It’ll blow up the budget.
The stimulus bill and its middle-class tax cuts: Evil. No need to fritter away money unless we’re throwing it …
Note to school officials:
I am not going to send my 6-year-old out to prosthelytize the neighborhood about the evils of drugs just to earn a paper “key” to tack up on a wall at school.
For …
Officials in a Central California town had a great opportunity to teach near-adults a tremendous value lesson last week. Too bad they picked the wrong curriculum.
The event was the football game between cross-town rivals, …
Never decorate with anything you plan to cook later. The decoration/food will become a beloved family friend whose demise will be mourned dramatically at the dinner table.
In other words, don’t give your kids yet …
If you have a chance to pass a law that would reduce by almost half the chance that a kid would be injured in a car accident, how quickly would you ask, “where do I …
Funny how an off-hand comment from three decades ago can stick with you, its implications changing over time.
For me, the comment came during the summer between sixth and seventh grade, when I was visiting the …
Recent studies show that texting behind the wheel is more dangerous than driving drunk. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia already ban texting while driving. Federal employees can’t do it, and there already was …
I can’t remember why it started – I think my mom might have called earlier the day of the race and mentioned that it was going to be on TV that night.
But I do remember …
A helicopter sits beside a major intersection just a mile or so past the main gate at Fort Irwin, and every time we pass it Big Guy works himself into a lather.
“Why can’t I fly …
Note to the West Babylon School District in Long Island: Thank you for your concern for children with food allergies, but your ban on home-baked goodies doesn’t help them in the least.
Sure, you specified that …
There’s only one thing worse than a man who stacks dishes and piles potato chip bags in the bedroom as part of his an Early American Frat Boy decor, and that’s a husband who …
It took a whooper of a recession to finally whomp pro sports executives up the sides of their heads with what fans have been trying to tell them for decades: You are too expensive to …
Confession from a careless mom: Yes, I use candles. I used them on birthday cakes and jack o’lanterns and every night at dinner.
And I’m going to keep doing it no matter how many people call …
Have you come down from the ceiling yet over the story about the nine states where insurance company can refuse to provide health coverage for domestic violence victims because the abuse is a “pre-existing …
Warning to any California dude who’s thinking of marrying a hillbilly girl. Consider carefully before taking those vows, even if her daddy’s shotgun is aimed at your ear, because there are ramifications for you and …
I conjured up this recipe while searching for slow cooker steak and gravy that doesn’t include canned soup and/or instant soup mix – the garlic allergy evicts those from this house. I never found what …
I didn’t mean to put Big Guy off, mainly because I know he never forgets anything so it doesn’t do any good to try.
Sometimes, though, I make promises that I’d just as soon not live …
You have a nasty habit of speeding. You know your break-neck tendencies put others’ lives in danger, but you do it anyway.
But then along comes a proposal that would pay you to not speed. Sounds …
So, are you all going to be all right while I’m gone, Dad asked the other day.
Yikes! Mental land mine ahead, my brain screamed. Out of the two possible ways to answer that question, one …
Los Angeles tried weight control by zoning a year ago, banning new fast-food restaurants in the southern part of the city.
That didn’t work, and a new study now suggests that including nutrition information on menus …
I’m in agony, and someone’s going to have a very nice Christmas as a result. Maybe even a European vacation.
Heck, it’s been so long since I’ve been to the dentist the lucky schmuck who draws …
We are raising a generation of children who have had access to on-demand movies from birth. Cartoons are not a half hour every afternoon and all morning on Saturdays – they’re 24-7.
These kids are not …
This recipe is another adult coupe against the kids – Mom’s sick of ranch dressing again.
I knew making it would mean Big Guy would resume his salad boycott, so we might have to become a …
Maybe because he’s never eaten at a buffet in his life – with their high risk of cross-contamination, they’re edible IEDs for the food allergic – Big Guy is fascinated with the concept.
He’s also going …
