Category Archives: Essays

With a Single Flake of Snow

With A Single Flake Of Snow With a single flake of snow, winter begins. Like that first faint shadow of twilight, we hardly take notice of it. It’s just another season in a lifetime of seasons; it’s just another snowflake in a long cycle of winters. The autumn leaves, glorious and resplendent, catch our attention as we hurry… Read More »

General Relativity

General Relativity Last night, I walked outside briefly to see if it was still raining. It had been raining most of the day and, because for that instant it seemed important to me to know if it was still raining or not, I went outside. I was surprised when I looked up and saw a dark, transparent sky… Read More »

Love and Life

Love and Life Sometimes it seems to take forever for the clouds to disappear. A bitter winter wind often bites deep into the feathery and fragile early days of spring, gnawing and nipping and ripping at the heart and soul of them. Were it not for the calendar most of us wouldn’t even know that spring had officially… Read More »

Assumptions

Assumptions We are all, I think, a little bit crazy. We live our lives based on assumptions. We think that everything will always be as it is right now and we take no thought when we do those simple everyday things … that this may be the last time we ever do them. We get up in the… Read More »

Still a Killer on the Cob

Back in 2006, we wrote and article called “A Killer on the Cob” which concluded that high fructose corn syrup is not and was never the same as regular table sugar – sucrose. Eight years later, high fructose corn syrup, is ubiquitous in our food supply from soda pop to pickles and from pancake syrup to fruit juices to… Read More »

Shadows

Shadows I think everyone has shadows in their past. Some dark corners that don’t look very pretty when the light of day shines upon them. Maybe I just think everyone has shadows in their pasts because I have so many. Or maybe others have too many too. Or maybe very few really do, but it is comforting to… Read More »