My grandmother kept a braid of garlic hanging in her kitchen year-round. She never called it medicine. She just knew it belonged there, near the stove, near the food, near the people she was feeding.

She wasn’t wrong.

For thousands of years, across cultures that had no contact with each other, g...

The San Francisco Giants were the first Baseball team that came to my attention when I was 9 or 10 years old. I remember the excitement of going to Candlestick Park to see Willie Mays in the peak of his fame. Reference: Willie Mays 500th HR.  I can recall feeling the ocean breeze caressing my fac...