The $1K battery of tests that I sent off to labs in Texas and Georgia came back of one accord: Wheat is the Devil. At least that’s my digestive system’s take on the matter. I’m gluten-intolerant. The story goes something like this … Genetically predisposed to reject wheat as a recognizable nutrient when I hit […]
I do have to wonder what Juan Williams was thinking when he admitted on national television that the sight of people in Muslim garb boarding an airplane gives him pause. NPR commentators who moonlight as Fox network pundits walk a fine line of credibility and Williams must have known where that line is drawn. But […]
My table manners. That, she told me later, was the thing about me that had caught her eye. Sitting alone in the dining hall at the College of Charleston, I’d put my napkin in my lap and kept my elbows off the table. One of the few times in my young life that being a […]
