Simple Beef Empanadas and What We Love to Drink With Them!

Savory beef, warm spices and olives make the zesty filling for these simple empanadas!

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The Perfect Drink to Pair with Buttery Pastries

Buttery pie dough, tangy cream cheese, honey, and figs are all you'll need for these delightful pastry pockets!

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Broccoli Cheddar Soup

This easy one-pot broccoli cheddar soup is so comforting during cold months. Simple ingredient list, and make it start to finish in under an hour.

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Meat Lovers’ Sheet Pan Pizza

This sheet pan Meat Lovers' Pizza is easy to prep - just press it into the pan, add your cheese, ham, sausage, and pepperoni, and then stick it in the oven. Delicious pizza will soon be yours!

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Split Pea Soup

Classic split pea soup! Dried split peas are cooked with ham hocks, onions, garlic, and leeks. This filling, hearty soup is perfect for cold winter days.

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The CW Renews 10 Shows: SUPERNATURAL, THE FLASH, CHARMED, LEGACIES and More

Ahead of its TCA presentation, The CW gave early renewals to 10 of its shows: freshman series CHARMED and LEGACIES, as well as ARROW (Season 8), BLACK LIGHTNING (Season 3), DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW (Season 5), DYNASTY (Season 3), THE FLASH (Season 6), RIVERDALE (Season 4), SUPERGIRL (Season 5), and SUPERNATURAL (Season 15). As for […]

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Showtime at TCA: THE L WORD Sequel Series, SHAMELESS Renewed, THE CHI and CITY ON A HILL Premiere Dates and More

Coming out of Showtime’s presentation at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, the cable channel made several announcements, including premiere dates for THE CHI and CITY ON A HILL, an L WORD sequel series pick up, the return of Bryan Cranston to television and much more. THE CHI: Season 2 of THE CHI is […]

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FULLER HOUSE Renewed for Fifth and Final Season on Netflix

Today Netflix announced that FULLER HOUSE has been renewed for a fifth and final season. A spin-off of the classic series FULL HOUSE, the show focused primarily on the former children — DJ, Stephanie and Kimmy. But almost all of the original cast members, including John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier and Lori Loughlin, also […]

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SUITS Recap: Stay Out Of The Kitchen

Following a mid-season premiere that ended with a girls’ night that (as predicted) viewers didn’t actually get to view, SUITS’ most recent episode continued exploring what happens when Louis Litt is managing partner and everyone else is the same. The episode title, “Whale Hunt,” referred to Harvey Specter’s messy attempt at landing a big client. […]

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THE GOOD FIGHT Preview: Season 3 to Premiere in March

Today CBS announced that the upcoming third season of THE GOOD FIGHT will premiere on Thursday, March 14 on CBS All Access. The network also teased what’s to come in season 3, saying “The world went crazy in the THE GOOD FIGHT’s second season, and now, in season three, the resistance does. Diane Lockhart (Christine […]

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RIVERDALE: Kelly Ripa Makes a Guest Appearance as Hiram’s Mistress

Mark Consuelos’s real life wife, Kelly Ripa, is making a guest appearance on RIVERDALE this week as Hiram Lodge’s mistress, Ms. Mulwray. With the town’s kingpin laid up in the hospital, Veronica asks Jughead to investigate her father’s shooting and this eventually leads to a face-to-face meeting with Ms. Mulray. During a visit to the […]

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My New Augusta National Quest - Post 2 - "Induction"

 

I'm fighting hard every day to get back here

Despite the density and its negative reputation, I have always found New Jersey to be a pleasant place to live. Granted, I don’t live in Jersey Shore country, nor near Bada Bing! Think about the benefits: living one hour from New York City and one hour from Philadelphia offers access to the best pastrami sandwiches and cheesesteaks in the world. From a golf standpoint, it’s also nice to be able to have a short drive to both Pine Valley and Merion and to be a couple of hours from the National Golf Links and Maidstone. I have been healthy my whole life and prior to my diagnosis never gave much thought to medical care. I consider myself lucky that I was treated at the University of Pennsylvania, a sophisticated teaching hospital.

They say you want to be treated by someone who specializes in whatever your particular affliction is. So, if you need have knee surgery you want to go to someone who only does knees, all day, every day. It turns out that Penn is one of the best hospitals in the world for treating my type of leukemia, called AML. They have a large team of doctors who do nothing but treat this insidious disease all day. After my initial 48-hour rapid response I started to receive care from an impressive group of doctors and nurses. The results of my bone marrow biopsy revealed that I had a particularly virulent strain of the disease known as an FLT-3 mutation. As the great Yankee Lou Gehrig said, I caught a bad break.

Leukemia isn’t hereditary and there is no good predictor for it. It just comes, literally, in the case of AML, out of the blue. The standard course of treatment for my mutation is three regimes of chemo followed by a bone marrow transplant. AML is the same form of leukemia that tragically took the life of Australian PGA golfer Jarrod Lyle at age 36. That brave soul first had the disease as a teenager and had it come back twice more, going through the standard course of chemo treatment and a transplant each time. That poor courageous man, may he rest in peace. How anyone could go through this ordeal three times defies imagination and would tax even the most optimistic of us.

You know the odds of survival aren’t great when the doctors and nurses hesitate or look away when you ask them what your life expectancy is with this disease.

It depends.

The worse thing in the world you can do is to Google any disease. You only read the horror stories and of high mortality rates. “The wife” has wisdom and implored me to ignore all of them. Medicine has advanced significantly in the last 10-15 years; the statistics can be misleading or not applicable, and there are new treatments and drugs coming onto the market all the time. Ignore it all the wise one said. Even if there is just a small percentage of survival, you truly must believe that you are among that group and you have to fight for your life every day.

My entire month of May was spent tethered to one or more IV machines. I was getting medication 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And for those who have been lucky enough not to endure an overnight stay in the hospital, count your blessings. Make it a life goal never to do so. Sleep is a luxury, as is normal food. Privacy and personal space don’t exist. It is an artificial, antiseptic bubble that is the anthesis of normal life, although I must say that commuting for so many years through the dungeon that is Penn Station in New York did prepare me somewhat for the ordeal. Between the pain, the chorus of machines beeping and the nurses taking your vital signs or administering medicine every four hours, it is an alternate reality to anything I have ever experienced. I am not complaining, to the contrary, I am exceedingly lucky to have had 24-hour medical care by experienced providers and these people are true heroes.

Between my golf quest and my occupation, I have lived in a bubble the last 25 years. I work in the finance world, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blanfien infamously said in 2009 that he was doing “God’s work.” The thing is, a lot of people that work in finance believe that what they are doing is noble. “I help people save for retirement or for their kid’s education,” you will hear people say, or we “help raise capital for people to start companies and create jobs.”

It’s a righteous way to describe pushing paper around and using other people’s money. It’s hardly noble or “God’s work.” Nurses caring for cancer patients in the middle of the night is God’s work and far more saintly than working on Wall Street. I’m in a bubble no more. The attendant in the ambulance that took me to the hospital was lamenting how she had to work two jobs and recently had her car repossessed. When I asked the nurses why they worked the night shift the answer was almost universally because it paid more money. The Hopi Indians have a word that describes how we value caregivers: Koyaanisqatsi. 

It means life out of balance. How is it as a society that people who put their lives on the line for us, run into burning buildings, and nurture us back to health during our darkest hour aren’t the most prized and well paid? The military have a more succinct description of it: FUBAR. This prima donna now clearly sees that our societal values are backwards.

In any event, I didn’t have much time to think about golf or to dream about my future in May, as the disease overwhelmed me. I was equally overwhelmed by the avalanche of love, prayers, positive thoughts and encouragement from friends and family. Thank you.

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THE RED LINE: First Look at CBS’ New Mini-Series Drama

THE RED LINE, from uber producer Greg Berlanti, tells the story of three families connected by the same tragedy. The eight episode series takes place in Chicago, where Daniel Calder is a high school history teacher mourning the death of his husband, an African American doctor who was mistakenly shot by a white cop after […]

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