I love a good flea market. Browsing tables and racks of cast-off clothes, jewelry and household items is almost always fun and interesting, and the thrill o...

We’re spending a week on Crete, the rugged island at the southern edge of Europe. It’s a place of wild beauty, fierce winds off of the Libyan Sea, and one-l...

David and I flew took an overnight flight to Paris on Sunday, then hit the ground running. Or at least walking a lot in comfortable shoes. All the airport t...

The other night, I organized a picnic at Millennium Park for the organization I run, Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility. The event went well: the ...

Summer is so glorious and yet so short here in Chicago. I try to pack in as much summer fun as possible. I love picnics and beach cookouts, so why not do bot...

I made a remarkable grilled cauliflower salad the other night. I am calling it my first summer salad because it contains mint from my garden, and because it...

I'm not a gardener by nature. I'm certainly into food and have been for years: farmers' markets, cooking, parties, restaurants, and of course, eating. It h...

I'm middle aged, and a doctor, so I know all too well that death is a part of life. I have lost patients--mostly elderly people or those who had led very unh...

Earlier this week, Attorney General William Barr released his take on the Mueller report in a 4-page letter to congress. The relatively brief letter, christ...

A million years ago, I wrote a blog post about Jenny McCarthy and the fraudulent anti-vaccine movement with which she was heavily involved. You can read it h...

I make chicken stock all winter. I cook it in my extra large stock pot, keep some in my fridge, and freeze the rest. If I open my freezer and learn that I ...

I was lucky enough to escape the endless Chicago winter last week when my husband and I headed to Belize. We spent one week in that tiny country wedged betwe...

I started my series on delicious soup recipes that you can easily make at home when late fall arrived and the outdoor temperatures were becoming cold. Today w...

Like most of you, I took a vacation from activism following the 2018 election. It was great to partake in the blue wave of democrats--and democracy--success...

It's New Year's Day, and I have gotten out of bed, maxed out on coffee, gone to the gym for a spin class, washed all the glassware from last night's small ga...

Sometimes things go just as planned when we are cooking. But at other times, a cook needs to get a little creative and figure out how to turn a cooking road...

I do not own a kitchen blow torch. I wish I did--I like playing with fire a lot, and kitchen blow torches look like fun. You can do nifty things with a blow...

I have always liked Governor Howard Dean, MD. Like me, he's a primary care doctor. As governor of Vermont, he was an authentic and 'straight-talking' politi...

When I mention that I speak and love all things French, it's not uncommon for someone to mention the purported high rates of anti-semitism in France. Five h...

A few years ago, while visiting New York, my husband and I ducked into a restaurant on Prince Street in Soho on an early spring evening just in time to miss ...