I’m eating up Dr. Joseph Mercola’s emailed healthy living video newsletters. He is certainly a man on a mission. Last week he reported from the beaches of Maui on fish oils and vitamin D. This week, he’s standing in a grocery store, revealing just how much corn syrup is in most commercial juice products. Here’s…

Hey, this would make a sexy Valentine’s Day gift: two two-ounce “Eros” bars of organic, dairy-free Dagoba Chocolate alongside something I’ve never heard of: a two-ounce “cacao elixir” (flavored with botanical infusions) that dispenses drops of cacao on your tongue to awaken “your passion” (whatever that is). It’s all included in the Eros gift bag.…

You may know that your Grandpa Frank hailed from Missouri, or that your Great Aunt Angie cooked Italian, but do you know your religious genealogy? Have you researched the religious beliefs and development of your forebears? I’d love to get a good conversation going on this. It is great fun to interview relatives to get…

A contractor for ConEd, the utility company here, called last Friday offering to come to my home and replace all my light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs to assist New York City in its efforts to conserve energy. “Every bulb in the house?” I asked incredulously. “Yes, every bulb in the house. And these fluorescent…

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