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Pharaoh's Revenge: A Cairo Culinary Tale

I’m sitting on our Airbnb patio taking in the sounds of the truck and driver using a megaphone to shout out foreign words that I can’t understand. Birds are chirping and horns are honking. We were supposed to tour the pyramids and see the Sphinx today, but

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Sunscreen Wake-Up Call: My Battle with Skin Cancer and Why You Should Listen 🚨🌞

As a child in the 1960s and ‘70s, I recall friends using liquid Crisco oil or baby oil and iodine to get an orangey, sunkissed glow to their skin. While I never used Crisco, I recall the joy of laying on a towel on my warm cement backyard patio or on the grass in the backyard listening to Top 100 hits on my white AM radio slathered with baby oil, Hawaiian Tropic, or Coppertone, and when I was a little older with a bigger budget, Bain de Soleil, “for that St. Tropez tan.” 🎵🎶🎵🎶

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