Headline from the campaign trail: Hillary Clinton eats hot peppers to keep her revved up! "I eat a lot of hot peppers,'' she told CBS News anchor Katie Couric, who asked her how she maintains her stamina on the campaign trail. "I, for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it. I think it keeps my metabolism... Read more
I was talking with a friend who like me had serious childhood asthma. After seeing all the best doctors in New York City, without satisfying results, her family brought her the Colorado Allergy & Asthma Centers. It was there that they diagnosed her with depression. Once diagnosed and treated with depression medication, her asthma symptoms... Read more
I received a fancy air filter for a present last year. It has a mold attachment, a kind of light blub, which uses ozone to fry the mold spores out of the air. But ozone is bad for asthma -- very bad apparently. Even the guy who sold the product to us said the ozone lamp causes an "allergic reaction" in some people. That would... Read more
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast"--CongreveOr an anxious one. I was invited to attend a Sunday matinee performance of the 92nd street Y Lyrics and Lyricists series. The 92nd Street YMHA is one of the oldest and finest cultural and community centers the city has to offer. They have everything from religious services,... Read more
You won't look at popcorn and butter the same way again. One of the great pleasures of seeing a movie used to be getting popcorn with butter. In New York City, when I was a kid, the RKO theaters had real butter for their freshly popped popcorn, not the manufactured yellow goo. But I also remember going to other movie theaters... Read more