I've decided to go vegan. Stop. It's okay. Come back. This isn't going to be a soapbox rant, I promise. I've asked my good friend, Plato, Greek philosopher and fellow vegetarian, to write a guest-blog on the topic. He agreed eagerly. Here is his post.

For the next 4 hours, I live in an airport. If there is an afterlife and if it has a purgatory, I assume it is something like this. ...There's a reason why they call it a terminal.

A riddle for you: A college friend used to stuff the pockets of her overalls with fried chicken in case she got hungry while playing outside. Can you guess her skin color? (Hint... It'll be easier than guessing how to she spells her name.)

Don't tell anyone but I recently turned into a 67-year-old man. My life is slowing down before my eyes. No more than 5 years ago, I was the off-the-cuff, seat-of-my-pants, hand-stands-in-my-inlaws'-living-room kind of guy. Today, I'm lucky if I can find a new answer for the crossword after I finish my morning oatmeal.

When I say Sean Connery What do you think of? James Bond. Sex. That accent that sounds like he’s talking through a mouthful of marshmallow fluff. What probably does not come to mind is this… That’s right. Sean Connery is just an actor… Actor noun An attention-crazed individual who will wear anything and say anything you want them to...

There’s been a lot of talk of gay rights in North Carolina. About how North Carolina is anti-homosexual and should act like it’s 1861 and re-secede from the union. But I don’t see it that way. I think North Carolina is trying to protect the gays because there is obviously something about heterosexual marriage in North Carolina that is killing...