Watch this video on YouTube One of my aspirations in life is to see the world. Both my wife and I enjoy visiting new places and experiencing different cultures. We’ve learned, however, that there’s a price to pay for those relaxing, pleasurable visits to the world’s...
The words “Turkish Bath” never used to mean anything to me. They do now. Certainly, one of the “don’t miss” experiences when visiting Turkey is the famed Turkish Bath. At least, that is what the guide books...
How much do chicken pox cost? Try $530.67 per pock. That’s what it could have cost me when both the kids came down with chicken pox just before our family’s planned European cruise over Thanksgiving. Even though both cases were mild (only 15 pox between...
Watch this video on YouTube One of the concerns parents of young children have around Christmas is teaching the kids to value giving as well as receiving. Many of us have difficulty with our own contradictory impulses. We don’t want to turn our kids into greedy...
If you were at a Safeway store in Rapid City sometime in the past couple of weeks, you may have seen me skulking toward the checkout line, hunched over suspiciously, with something hidden under my coat. No, I wasn’t shoplifting. I was just buying cheap coffee. Most of...
While on Celebrity’s Millennium, I came as close as I will probably ever get to an outrageously expensive bottle of wine, a 1949 bottle of Petrus. Had you, or your parents, bought a magnum (equivalent of two regular bottles of wine) or two of this wine in 1949 and...
