The first turkey I made when I was 24 years old, living with a boyfriend, and clueless on how to cook something like that. Someone recommended using an oven bag, which worked so well that although I didn’t cook another turkey for 16 years, I recommended it myself many times with glowing reviews. Oven bags [...]

There are a million things to be thankful for, if you start training yourself to look for them. What most people do, though, is get really trained in finding what’s wrong with someone/something/some situation. And, holy cow, is that easy to do. Since when do you EVER find someone who does and thinks and behaves [...]

I got a call yesterday from a patient’s wife, who wanted to make sure that I knew about her husband’s drinking and that she thought it was excessive. Just so I’d know. Just in case I wanted to/could do something about it. Sigh. What exactly does she think I can do? And, it’s not as [...]

Up until now, I hadn’t actually seen this in action personally, but had always heard that the elderly can really let loose with some social bombshells, simply because they don’t care anymore what people think. And then Mary came into my office. She’s 83 and annoyed that she’s gained a few pounds around her middle. [...]

I know I was supposed to write about the amazing food we ate in Japan, but first I have to write about some of the crazy things you don’t hear about. Like the Japanese toilets. I am CONVINCED that if people knew how great the Japanese toilet seats were, the Japanese wouldn’t be able to [...]

We’ve just gotten back from an 18-day trip in Japan and probably the best way for me to be able to describe it is to say this: remember back when you were 4? And everything was new and unfamiliar and exciting? Japan was kind of like that. I walked around like a 4-year old, saying [...]