Have you ever taken a shortcut thinking it was going to get you to your destination faster? The first time I ever did this bigly, I knew I was going to end up writing about it someday, and here it is. I was taking one of my first drives back from a vacation at my…
Have you ever had to be rescued—literally and physically? I have. It was no fun at all. Years ago, I went to the Indian Canyons near Palm Springs, CA, with a friend. We’d planned to spend the day there hiking and playing in its streams and lakes. We clambered up sloping rock walls to jump…
When I was a little kid, one time I pulled some little red grapes off these little stems and tried to eat them. Problem was, they were plastic. I was surprised to find that I could chew and suck on these plastic grapes and they wouldn’t chew up. I spit them out and stuck those…
“A hamburger without the bun? They call it a wrap?” A hamburger wrapped in lettuce instead of the traditional bun was a new thing years ago at one of my favorite old hangouts, In-and-Out Burger. They called it Protein Style. Incredible. I was a bit skeptical. I wasn’t convinced that healthy lettuce leaves could replace…
