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Sausage: Making your own

Sausage is a great convenience food. The pork meat is well seasoned with herbs and spices. You can use it in soups, skillets, casseroles ... There are two main types of sausages: fresh and cured. Fresh sausage includes breakfast sausage and Italian sausage. These have to be cooked before ...

Skating safety

With winter here, i have found myself cooling off a lot of parents who have questions about their children’s safety when ice skating — both indoors and outdoors. Almost 20,000 children are being seen for skating injuries on a yearly basis, so this week i’ll glide through a few skating ...

Looking back through frost-coated glasses

As far as I can figure, there aren’t a lot of advantages to old age. Yeah sure, it’s better than dying young, but still not the Golden Years Paradise I was told to look forward to. I guess everything comes with a price, and achieving Old Fart-hood is no exception. Take senior discounts. ...

Your guide to the best astronomy books

As much as I love looking at the night sky, my love for astronomy really grew with the books I read. People often ask what books I would recommend for those interested in the subject, so this list contains some of my favorites. It has a combination of non-fiction, science fiction and a few ...