Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook

When my dinner arrived at the table it looked less like food and more like evidence in an arson investigation.
“I can’t eat this,” I said. “The pork chop is completely burned.”
“Not all of it,” my wife said. “Just cut away the burned part and eat what’s left.”
“What’s left is the bone.”
“Then eat the [...]

Resistant to Change

 
People don’t like to change. They don’t want to change their religion, political party, or (in the case of adolescent males) their T-shirts. They’ll cling to their beliefs (or their ratty, stained eighties-vintage T-shirts) until their dying day.
Much of human history is really about the struggle to get people to change; whether it [...]

You Can Be A Coffee Achiever

Americans have a lot to worry about right now.
There’s the mortgage industry which must have switched to an all alcohol diet and decided that it made perfect sense to loan people more money than they would actually earn in their lifetimes. Foreclosure is now the only growth industry in the financial sector and the [...]

Counting Calories

There was a time when I didn’t fear food. I ate with gusto and abandon (and occasionally a knife, fork, and napkin) without worrying about the consequences. That was before I understood calories.
Like many of the unpleasant realities of modern living – nuclear weapons, greenhouse gases, reality television, etc. – calories were discovered [...]

Irrational Behavior

I realized the other day that I’m nuts.  This revelation hit me just after I pulled the fifth dead pen from the cup on my desk, scratched futilely at the page with it, and then returned it to the cup.  Did I expect it to heal?  Was the passing of this ballpoint so traumatic that [...]