Isn’t it nice to get re-acquainted with an old friend? Or, maybe not even a friend. Perhaps it’s someone who was always in your circle of friends, but the two of you were never particularly close. You hung out a couple of times on the playground, but you never invited them to your birthday pool [...]

So, how was that family BBQ?  Are you playing much golf?  How’re ya hittin’ ‘em?  How ’bout this weather?  Can you believe the rain and/or sun and/or heat?  I’m assuming that’s what small talk sounds like and what non-shut-ins say to each other.  But us spunkybean folk?  Nah.  All these springtime, summer, and early autumn [...]

Are you stuck with multiple invitations to various pool parties, too afraid to go lest you blind the other attendees when sunlight strikes your ghostly pale torso? We’ve got just the thing to keep you inside as spunkybean asks “Who Needs Fresh Air?”

As the TV season comes to an end, nature does everything it can to force us outside. The days are longer, the weather is warm, the skies are blue, it’s beautiful, really. For the normal people, it’s ideal. Unfortunately, some of us are pale, withdrawn, and prone to respiratory infections that limit our interactions with [...]

As the TV season comes to an end, nature does everything it can to force us outside. The days are longer, the weather is warm, the skies are blue, it’s beautiful, really. For the normal people, it’s ideal. Unfortunately, some of us are pale, withdrawn, and prone to respiratory infections that limit [...]