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 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 »
Summer Time Where I live, summers are not measured by the calendar so much as by holidays. Summer begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. The mid-point is marked by the Fourth of July. The calendar does not agree of course. Summer, according to “calendarians” (is that a word?) begins on or about June 21 and… Read More »
I see an old man walking slowly down the sidewalk with a small dog on a leash. The old man is hunched and barely able to walk. The small brown and white dog isn’t barking. He’s trying to walk as slowly as the old man holding the leash. They look like good friends. The old man is so… Read More »
They say that ketchup is the poor man’s sauce, whoever they are. They say a lot of things. They say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander too, but how many of you walk around calling male geese ganders? Not many, but THEY do. But I don’t want to talk about geese, ganders or what… Read More »
Leave The Candle Burning He left the candle burning, just as she had asked him to do. Though it had been seven years since she went away, every evening at nightfall he would light a candle. Every night while he tried to sleep through his pain and his loneliness, the candle flickered silently casting dancing shadows upon the… Read More »