I've seen a lot of microwave bacon cookers in my day, but most of them are about the same. They're usually a tray with poles or slats to drape the bacon over, allowing the grease to drip off and the…

Last Tuesday at this time I was not getting ready for work. I was sleeping. And then I was reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Later I went for an hour-long bike ride along the beach, followed by wine tasting…

When I saw this chart, I just had to laugh because IT'S TRUE!! I have had many such revelations in my life. Like the time when my husband (then my 20-year-old boyfriend) and I were walking through the grocery store…

What gives with the cheeseburgers lately? Everywhere I turn, bacon cheeseburgers are in my face, tempting me to be bad. Very bad. The latest rage seems to be the Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger, the basics on a glazed donut instead…

Considered by some to be the first scientist, Roger Bacon was a Franciscan friar and English philosopher known for his emphasis on empirical research and experimentation. Bacon studied at Oxford at the tender age of 13, and later became an…