What is the 30-day sardine challenge? Simple: eat a tin of sardines every day for 30 days. Sardines are healthy for a host of reasons and as far as snacks go, nutritionally speaking, they crush a bag of potato chips or crackers or cookies. So, yes, eating a tin every day is a healthy habit […]
Politicians Suck at Wearing Baseball Hats – I Examine Why
I’m going to borrow one of President Obama’s favorite verbal tics and open with this statement: let me be perfectly clear, this is NOT a feature about politics or policy or politicians’ policies. It’s about baseball hats. I don’t care what you think politically and I’m confident you don’t care what I think. What I’m […]
How Stephen King’s Books Saved Me From Being a Literary Loser
It began with picking up a used copy of The Gunslinger in Dave’s Olde Book Shop in Manhattan Beach all those years ago. Cool title. Cool cover. Or maybe it really began the first time I saw the boring-but-since-it-was-Stephen-King creepy cover of Misery. It could even have truly started with the It cover that used to scare the crap out […]