Last year I eschewed all sugar, sweeteners, carbs and gluten. If it wasn’t a protein or vegetable, I avoided it like the plague. (No pun intended.) When coronavirus culture hit… Read more

With an additional three-week stay-at-home mandate unleashed last week, I was tickled to stumble across an ingenious, comprehensive website called”appropriately enough”www.stayhomekc.com. Devised by the local marketing gurus at HelloBigIdea, it’s… Read more

92.5% of all my celeb chats are your basic, garden-variety interviews. Verbal volley, I call it. But every once in awhile, there’s an interview so zany and kooky, you’re never… Read more

The Laya Center For Holistic Wellness here in Kansas City says there are many tried-and-true ingredients you can use to help boost your immune system from the inside out. The… Read more

Bless their hearts, some of my friends are mighty lax when it comes to returning my phone calls and/or text messages. I get it, they’re on the phone all day… Read more

I get it, you’re home and likely bored. Self-quarantining has that effect on people. What does the average, bored, under-inspired person do in times of crisis? Yup, you guessed it…. Read more

Because serendipity usually works to my advantage, my first, and likely only 80s cruise went off with only a few glitches last week. If there was ever a time to… Read more

I don’t typically notice art. There, I said it. Unless something features a particularly bold color schemata or offers up a brigade of quirky mixed media, it’s usually doesn’t garner… Read more

  You know that term “salt of the earth””when you’re referring to a fine, upstanding individual? Well, my uncle Tom Bryan was more like “salt of the universe” or “salt… Read more

Well, that was horrific. I just ate whatever I wanted for two solid weeks. It was awesomely awful. 14 days of gluten gluttony. 14 days of sugar serendipity. 14 days… Read more