Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!

According to a small sidebar note in a recent edition of Woman’s World Magazine, a long-term study at Harvard has concluded that those who eat modest amounts of chocolate live longer. This is based on the fact that chocolate is jam-packed with heart-healthy...

Beatlemania, Revisited

It’s been 50 years today? Are you freakin’ kidding me? Fifty years since the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show? Seriously? Yet I remember it well, even though I was only nine years old. And the reason I have this memory is because my mother,...

XXII Winter Olympics

The Olympic Torch will arrive in Sochi, Russia, tomorrow via a stint aboard the International Space Station, where it accompanied Russian Cosmonauts on a space walk. Upon learning this little factoid, all I could think was: Holy Crap! The Olympic Torch has gone where...

Accountability 101

Writing down your goals makes them real. You’re not just blowing smoke anymore, you’re actually committing your plan to paper. Then when you “publically” share the list of what you’re aiming to do, you suddenly begin to feel more “responsible” for following through....

On the Eve of Super Sunday

Unless your head has been completely buried in beach sand the past two weeks, you know that the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos will be playing a little football game in East Rutherford, New Jersey tomorrow. It’s only the second time the Seahawks have gone to the...