Cooking in the West

My column about aging awhile back brought several suggestions on how to combat aging including advice on where to get the best deal on orthotic inserts for my shoes to suggestions that if I would forego wearing foundation, cross my heart undergarments, it would help pull the wrinkles out of my face. Although those were helpful hints, I decided it might be easier to just change the way I perceive the aging process.

As branding season is upon us, it underscores that cowboying with your grown children is a humbling experience. For parts of three decades, I have given them cowboying tips usually s...