Here's what I made for our Halloween meal. Don't laugh when I say they're supposed to be mummies: They're hot dogs wrapped in strips of Pillsbury crescent roll dough and then baked. I think that...

Here we are at Mayo. I've already given up my blood. We're scheduled to meet with the doctor in about an hour or so. They've changed around the blood area here at Mayo. In the past, everyone who needed to get blood taken would get to pass through a...

In a little while, Jay and I are headed off to the north for my six-month Mayo checkup with Dr. H tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be uneventful and we'll find out that Spike has decided to calm down since last month. Maybe he's feeling sluggish, just...

WCK is obsessed with ... tapeworms. That's right. She has a really cool kids' encyclopedia with lots of big, colorful photos, and one of the big, colorful photos is a lovely close-up of a tapeworm. The photo totally creeps me out, and I once made the...

I found out this morning that two Kansas City radio stations are already playing Christmas music. I realize that this happens every year, and every year I complain bitterly about it. Bitterly. I know I'm perhaps a bit extreme in my "no Christmas music...