Recent content by Brookswood

Karen. It’s a perfectly good name for a female. Why is it used to describe jerks? Adoption. Why do we use it for pets? That is insulting to human children who have been adopting.

Coffee, preferably not caffeine free, is also full of good things. I stopped taking COQ10 when I read that there is little evidence it affects the amount of COQ10 in the blood of the people who take it. I take magnesium since my experience has been a huge reduction in nightly leg cramps when I...

Check out the Consumer Reports article on lead in cinnamon. Some are OK, some are so-so and some just blow up the lead safety limits.

Very sad.

I got rid of all my pets by giving them to people who want them. They were a crutch that kept me away from human beings with their real human issues, problems and other various quirks. Now if I feel the need to pet a dog, or let a cat perch on my lap, visit one of my girlfriends and use their pet.

Somewhat lonely. I was a nerdy kid with thick glasses, and not very athletic. I was a bookworm. However, I did manage a girlfriend or two in HS. I was a nobody. I doubt if anyone in my old class other than a few friends even remembers me. Things got better about two years into college...

Yes. Our bankers are dinosaurs who need to be dragged into the late 20th century. Not the 21st century, I doubt they could handle that.

It’s important that you are also educating your granddaughter. She needs to know what good male behavior is like and expect that on a regular basis. Also, to dump any loser who can’t display it consistently. I often marvel at the lousy choices young women make when choosing the man they...

One thing for certain, we would all be better off if courtesy and gallantry were to make a big comeback. And, if social media and our political leaders would stop over emphasizing the badly behaved for their crass reasons of greed and power.

I knew a Cuban fellow who would have loved for the USA to have invaded Cuba and kick out Castro. However, I am not sure that would be a good thing for most of us in the USA. I don’t know what will happen. I hope they have some contact with alternative leaders in Venezuela who will rule...

No doubt about it. How to treat a woman in some situations can be very ambiguous at best. Sometimes a man risks being chastised. Or made to feel like some bum. I finally picked up a book on how “nice guys” usually get it wrong when they try too hard to please a woman. So I stopped being a...

I did my stationary bike cardio. HIIT, where I pedal like my neighbor’s nasty German Shepard is chasing me on a bike for a minute, rest 2 minutes, then rinse and repeat 4 more times.

Yup! I agree. It is a small pleasure to do something nice for a female member of our species. And you also don’t hit girls. Remember that? My sister used it to her great advantage when we were younger.

You devil!! What a clever way to bring down your food costs. 😁

Folks, be careful when you read the responses to this issue, especially those from bureaucrats and politicians. There are a lot of “Straw Man” arguments being made that avoid the heart of the problem. IMO, the heart of the problem is the theft of public funds by certain individuals, and the...