I recently celebrated another trip around the sun, a euphemism for “Happy Birthday” or, in my case, “Four years away from Medicare!” I’m not one of those individuals who feel a 61st birthday is cause for celebration. Sure, it’s nice to open my Facebook feed and see “Happy Birthday” posts from, so far, 143 friends.…
DING! Congratulations on successfully downloading the CV Green’s Drugstore Health app. This is the easiest way for you to refill your prescriptions, provided you are healthy enough to scan a barcode. We’ll also send you pill reminders so you’ll never forget to take those medications that keep you alive. Of course, this all hinges on…
I have never been a fan of restaurants owned by, or associated with, celebrities. I could be if, while dining, the celebrity whose name is on the door and the menu were sitting near me or, preferably, being told the wait is “over an hour, since you don’t have a reservation.” So far, that hasn’t…
I don’t envy today’s parents and the challenges they face. Suffice it to say none of the other parents in my daughters’ kindergarten carpools would have marched into their schools and demanded their severely underpaid teachers stop reading “The Little Engine That Could” because it’s too “woke.”
The luggage carrier perched atop the SUV in front of me on a Chicago interstate one recent July afternoon reminded me of two facts: 1. Never get behind a vehicle with a luggage carrier if you are trying to read upcoming road signs. 2. Summer vacation season is upon us. As I peer into cars…
Pat Sajak is going to snap on his final episode
I recently attended a neighborhood art fair — the kind that springs up on city streets during warm weather months and creates pleasant chaos as artists share the block, or in this case four blocks, with longtime retail merchants. I saw everything from painted bamboo rods to sculptures created out of discarded auto parts to…
In this country, “impeach” has become the verb of choice for anything that upsets us. A friend, recounting a story about how someone had cut him off in traffic, ended the tale by saying, “That guy should be impeached.”
Like every product sold today that requires at least an iota of setup on the owner’s part, manufacturers have elected to stop using words. In this case, all I see is a diagram of the device and a bunch of arrows pointing to various parts.
I am well aware of rats’ value in the medical community; their cardiovascular systems are similar to humans and, like us, they possess the uncanny ability to forage for delicious snacks in darkened kitchen pantries at 2 a.m