Diet and Health

March 28, 2010

I should be clear about this: I am a fat man. I have more than my share of the diseases characteristic of the 21st century. I do not deny that my lifetime diet has played a huge part leading up to my present state of health. I am not the person you want [...]

F.C.

March 21, 2010

Once upon a time there was a chicken that I liked. The chicken—at this point sex unknown—was curious, friendly, always the first to “greet” me. He was the chicken that was not completely with his flock. The chicken that stepped to a different drum. When the flock was a little older and knew [...]

Peanut Butter

March 14 2010

Okay! How many of you out there love peanut butter? It turns out March is National Peanut Butter Month.

I got home from work on Friday and Diane was cooking up luscious hamburgers from some of Jane Bush’s ground beef. It was a very appealing scene to see her cooking up some supper that [...]

Coffee

March 7, 2010

David Letterman said it: Without caffeine I wouldn’t have any personality at all. Along about 5:05 on Friday afternoon one of my work colleagues pointed out that our faculty meeting was cutting into Spring Break. The main thing that means for me is a bit more time to drink coffee and read after [...]