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I’ve lost 22 pounds (from 202 to 180) in the last 24 weeks. I still eat the same bad foods as always, except for sweets. Basically it’s be...

My brother Scott died on Oct. 2, 2012, and he did not go out gently. In fact, his last six months were horrible. He was in hospitals in an...

An abbreviated version of this story was published in the (Greensboro) News & Record on April 1, 2012. You can find it here: bit.ly/H8bI...

Recently on Twitter I asked why National Public Radio’s Neal Conan specifies that he’s in Studio 3A. After all, it's not as if we need t...

If you were driving along a road and saw something interesting, you wouldn’t stop in the middle of the road to ponder it, would you? Of cour...

My mother had chronic pains in her neck and head. She often had migraines, “sick headaches” she called them, and she’d have me mix her a “he...

Actor Burt Reynolds once retired from acting, and replied thus when asked why: “I’m tired of holding in my stomach.” We’re an affluent count...