My father spent a year and a half dying of cancer. He wasn’t the same person at the end of the process he was at the beginning. He was a better one.

Those famous five stages of grief (surprise, denial, anger, bargaining, and acceptance) can be a kindness, if you can make it through to the final stage.

I’m not normally into ninja throwing knives, and they’re not normally into me.

Last year, when he was just a baby, Rufus the Wonder Dog ® used to eat dead cicadas during his walks.

At first, my wife and I were grossed out by taste in all-organic, free-range fast food.

Thank goodness we are far enough away from the ocean to dodge hurricanes. Since hurricane season is officially underway, I agree that it’s time we propose a change in the way we name hurricanes.

Clothing morphology has possibilities. For my latest get-rich quick scheme, I’m going to design some clothing article for guys that can be turned into anything from a tuxedo to a baseball cap with just a few simple twists and turns of the cloth.

It’s always fun paging through a medical or psychological dictionary and trying to decide what diseases you have.

Is "Raindrop Incense Explosion" a noun or a verb? You be the judge.

If you’ve always wanted to open up your home to a student from another country, now is your chance. 

Certain phrases stir up emotion, but few have the power to evoke so many different feelings and thoughts than this: "You have cancer."

Sometimes when I put together a story for the newspaper, half the challenge is deciding what to leave out.