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Why are people so miserable?

Are you happy? I once attended a play where these were the first words you heard the narrator say. On stage, the lights were all dark except for one spotlight shone on a big smiley face floating in the air. It made me and everyone else in the audience laugh. The rest of the performance was ...

Merida, Mexico

When you mention Mexico, images of mariachi bands and platters of delicious tacos and guacamole might come to mind along with thoughts of huge all-inclusive resorts dotting the coast. What you may not imagine is a large but fairly quiet and very charming city filled with sprawling colonial ...

Shades of grey are everywhere

You may recall my recent column on the blessings of aging along with some of the cons. Along with decades of laughing and smiling (and too much time spent in the sun) come wrinkles, and I'm OK with some of them but not above fighting the deeper ones as best I can without resorting to a facelift ...

Will we eat our words?

Folks have been pondering the great Steelers breakup with longtime head coach Mike Tomlin and whether that was good or bad in the long term. There was outrage on both sides with Tomlin critics asserting it was time for a change and his walking away was for the best. Tomlin loyalists (along with ...

Could sorghum become the next superfood?

Could sorghum be the next big thing on your dinner table or restaurant menu? Farmers who grow sorghum are starting to push for that amid a changing global landscape and tariff war. China has traditionally been the biggest sorghum buyer but canceled big loads of it this year ahead of a ...

Sensational Spain

If you read my travel blog from the first half of our recent trip to Spain, you may remember we began in Barcelona, took a day trip to Montserrat Monastery an hour northwest, then headed south by train to Valencia. Now, we’re off to the Balearic Islands off Spain’s east coast to visit ...