A vaccination I had in 1976 might have done the trick — (Updates provided at the end of the article, the latest being Sept. 2021) I remember the day vividly, a hot autumn day in 1976, when my father and I entered the cafeteria of the lone public school in our Missouri town of 520 people, a K-12 school where I’d graduated…

The ONE easy shortcut for cutting past the many ads, distracting links, and ensuring the recipes you make are accurate Have you looked for a recipe on the internet, and when you put in a term like “rice and cheese casserole,” or “ways to cook spinach,” you immediately go to…

Impress your friends but don’t tell them what you put in their food Just because you like to cook doesn’t mean you have to break your neck doing it. When I’m making a dish for a potluck or neighborhood get-together, sometimes I make a complicated recipe. But there are occasions…

Save Money, Save Time, Look Like a Pro in the Kitchen Bacon should be America’s official #1 food. When I didn’t know better, I fried bacon on the stove. A colossal mess to clean. Then I learned how to put bacon strips on a wire rack inside a pan in…

I have never responded to a post like this, but could not resist this time. You will find some startling information. 1. My phone went dead while reading comments, so I went to my desktop to try to find the piece again. On Medium I searched for "Show Me Yours…

I’m Exhausted and Crabby Sometimes I think the universe put me in a rural place and made a pandemic just so this could happen. Then I think how narcissistic and inherently dumb that thought truly is. Then I think one man’s meat is another man’s poison. Then I think there is no great loss…

“All Lives Matter”? You Didn’t Have to Deal with This Crap — Note: Top illustration contains a racially profane term, for providing historical context only Years ago I asked my elderly mother about her childhood memories. She told me of being five years old,when her uncle took her to a carnival. …

How to use these strange times to propel your words — Never have we seen such widespread fear in our society. Yet we were warned. Scientists predicted a major pandemic “someday.” We all coasted along, visiting the world easily, indulging ourselves, our bright future continuing to crawl toward us from the horizon. These days are so different than just a few…

by Chuck Mallory To understand, you need to know I grew up in a very small town in the 1960s. My mother was able to put me in first grade at age five (we didn’t have a kindergarten) because she had to go to work. I was scared. My older…