Tomorrow is a day to give thanks, and not just thanks for your Aunt Frieda’s turkey-roasting skills. I’m talking about real thanks for real things. (Not that moist, succulent turkey isn’t a real thing and you shouldn’t be thankful for it, but you know what I mean.) Hopefully, you’re thankful to … [Read more...]

To help celebrate Thanksgiving (November 24), I’ll post a new recipe every Friday in November (including the Friday after Thanksgiving). But these won’t be the usual Thanksgiving recipes. The recipes I’ll be posting are designed to help you out of various Thanksgiving dilemmas – like this … [Read more...]

I’ve wanted a pet monkey pretty much my entire life. The desire peaked in the mid-1990s when people claimed I looked like David Schwimmer’s character, Ross, from the TV show “Friends.” At the time, Ross had a pet capuchin monkey named Marcel. Marcel was pretty cool. As I got older I realized how … [Read more...]

Our daughter recently turned one, which means she’s slowly graduating from baby food to grown-up food. That also means mommy and daddy have to start eating healthier meals that we can share with our finicky toddler. I’m not all that excited about eating healthier, even though I know I should. I’m … [Read more...]

When I came up with the title of this new monthly entry, which will report various watermelon-related news from around the Web, I thought I was being clever with my choice of title. “Watermelon bites” can refer to bites of watermelon, but it can also refer to the little blurbs known as news … [Read more...]

I’m headed to a Halloween party next week and I also have to figure out what costume I’ll be wearing. My wife and I will probably opt for something simple, but I’m still not sure what that simple getup will be. I can tell you with absolute certainty that I won’t be dressing up as a watermelon. As … [Read more...]