Category Archives: Essays

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 »

Summer Time

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 »

The Old Man and His Dog

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 »

Ketchup Is the Poor Man’s Sauce

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 »