Shortly after marrying my wonderful wife, I told her that I would rather starve than “have a belly”. In my relatively young adult mind, I believed that I could always keep doing the things I was doing and not gain weight. How naive I was! We weren’t married long before…

I love baked salmon. I fell in love with it eating lovingly-prepared meals at my paternal grandmother’s table. Unfortunately, she took her secret recipe to the grave with her. One thing I do know: no part of the recipe was hurried. …

A warm, June sun had just appeared over the horizon when I walked toward the building where I would be married in just a few short hours. I was terrified. In a classic case of cold feet, I had spent most of the previous night wondering if I wanted to…

There are seemingly endless stories about people (most of them famous in their own right) who were confronted by significant challenges who went to extraordinary measures to overcome them. …

People are not like trees. Okay, that’s not entirely true. People, like trees, start out as a seed, of sorts. We both grow, eventually begin to decay, and finally die. …

At my house, my family knows that unless we have something else planned on Sunday afternoons, you’ll find me in the kitchen baking or cooking. That delicious-looking loaf of bread in the picture above is one of my recent creations: a healthy-ish cinnamon swirl bread. I use whole wheat flour…

I’ve asked the question before: Do you ever have mornings when you wake up more tired than when you went to bed? Do you struggle to find motivation because everything other than stream something and chill seems overwhelming? …

If you’re human, you know people have a number of ways to communicate with each other. There is, perhaps, no method more powerful for building people up or tearing them down than words — written or spoken. I’m fascinated by words. I love that there are people gifted in the…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) seem to be all the rage right now. Don’t worry, this isn’t a particularly nerdy article about AI and ML in our lives. In a recent experiment, a group of researchers hacked the systems of a self-driving car so they could see what…