Happy, Delicious New Year!

Happy, Delicious New Year!

When I was a child, I thought like a child and ate milk chocolate like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things and began to eat the more manly, dark chocolate (with all due deference to the Apostle Paul). I must add that the entirety of my...
Pants on fire

Pants on fire

A Definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. Of course, no reader of this note is insane. Of course not! Perish the thought! Who could even think such a thing? And yet, do we have a high tolerance level of...
You can’t get there from here

You can’t get there from here

“If I could be any tree in the ground I wanna be a tree where the birds hang around, ‘cause everybody needs to be loved and I’m no exception. I was born to reject rejection. If I could be any bird that I choose, I wanna be a bird with a nest you would use, ‘cause...
Our World, Our Oyster

Our World, Our Oyster

Please do this for me – well, OK, it’s for you, but I’m asking: take a few minutes to dream up your absolute top-drawer vacation of a lifetime, pulling out all the stops, throwing caution to the wind, being as wildly spontaneous as you are able. Not thinking time or...
“It’s in there!”

“It’s in there!”

A guy goes into a florist to buy a bouquet of roses. The clerk notices his wedding ring and thinks, ‘These flowers are an apology for something. He’s in the doghouse.’ A wife prepares her husband’s favorite meal, lights some candles and puts on a special dress and he...