Breeders’ Cup 2026 Handicapping: Artificial Intelligence Meets Actual Horse Sense By Amber Woods and Some AI Chatbot Degenerate Who Claims He Knows a Guy at Churchill Downs As far as I’m concerned, the end of October is the most wonderful time of the year. And no, I’m not talking about Christmas. I’m talking about Breeders’ …
When your neighbor casually hands you what has to be at least $40 worth of organic Fuyu persimmons, what exactly are you supposed to do? You Google persimmons. And then you learn more about persimmons in forty-five minutes than you ever expected to know in your entire adult life. Because apparently persimmons are one of …
As I learned on our latest fall vacation, you are apparently not officially a Crazy Cat Lady until you have seven cats and vacation with all of them in a fifteen-foot travel trailer. Seven. Cats. In fifteen feet of RV craziness. Vacation? That is not vacation. Sifting that cat box literally every hour does not …
I was scampering about on a hiking trail somewhere deep in the John Muir Wilderness this a.m. when I had to take a break to shove some homemade Cinnamon Raisin Bread at my face ASAP. It was a Snack Sherpa emergency at 9,00 feet at nine a.m. I mean, as one does when one rises …
Is Bulgogi Beef Banh Mi a fall-inspired dinner? Of course it is. I realize there is not a single decorative pumpkin, butternut squash or cinnamon stick involved, but autumn cooking at our house has its own rules. When fall colors are on the horizon and we’re packing the motorhome for our annual Eastern Sierra leaf-peeping …




