There was a time I would enter a gym and dive right into my workout WITHOUT warming up. I could bench press a bison without worry of pain, strain, or being maimed. But nowdays I have to stretch out BEFORE I go to the bathroom, and if not, I risk being stranded on the toilet [...]
Before we leap into this week’s vitally important topic (i.e., finding myself sitting in a staff meeting stuck next to the office know-it-all dork who continually hikes his trousers up so high, last week he managed to get his neck firmly wedged in his left pant leg, and security had to call in a rather [...]
You clean your house before you go on vacation, and you do this because you want to return to a clean home. I tidy up my house before I go on vacation too, but I do it for an entirely different reason: burglars, because one of my biggest fears—next to being chased by a [...]
I have been thinking a lot lately about how animals scratch themselves. And with that said, I welcome you to “Veterinarian Corner” where today I, who’s not an actual veterinarian in real life, but who plays a very convincing one in my newspaper column, will answer a nagging animal medical question: if a dog has [...]
I’m forever in the wrong place at the wrong time behind the wrong people. Monday morning was not different. It was around 6:00 o’clock. And like many of us, I was in my usual hurry. So being a “Fast Freddie” who forever moving furiously fast, I figured I’d stop off at McDonalds and pick up [...]
It’s hard to figure out exactly what “fancy food” is; given the term has different meanings to different people. A few folks would agree that eating sushi, for example, is eating ” fancy food,” while the vast majority of us, to include dull-witted rock formations, realize that eating sushi is eating RAW FISH, also [...]
My family bought me a traditional charcoal grill for Father’s Day. My wife was a little apprehensive at first, what with me squirting jet fuel on flames. But I quickly calmed her fears when I only accidentally lit the dog on fire, twice. Luckily, I had plenty of wine on hand to douse the dog. [...]
As an individual whose ½ genetic makeup arises out of the Mediterranean, specifically an archipelago which is shaped like a boot, it should come as no great surprise to you that I gravitate towards the garlicy goodness of garlic.
Side Note: For those of you who are NOT equipped with a GIANT brain like the one [...]
