“You can call me anything, just don’t call me late to dinner…or elderly or geezer or old age pensioner!” Aging and the names we call ourselves or allow people to call us throughout our lives matter.

It seems there are two stages in our lives when it truly matters what people call us: when we are teenagers and when we  have “advanced beyond the middle of our lives.” These are the two significant transition periods in our lives.

In the first period, we are approaching the apogee of human existence, adulthood! Remember when you were a whole eight and a HALF?…

The songs say it all! “School’s Out.”
“Summer Breeze.” “Under the Boardwalk.” “Surfin’ USA.” “Those Lazy-Hazy-Days of
Summer.” Yes, “Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy,”  with picnics, barbecues, beaching, camping
trips, enjoying the beauty and ease of the outdoors before time for “hibernation.”
But what the songs do not tell us is that summer time is also the peak
season for food poisoning, or foodborne illness.

According to the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are two reasons for
the spike in foodborne illness during s…