Things Unnecessary: the name of a store at The Springfield Mall. Not The Springfield Mall one mile from my home (although it could be), but the one in The Simpsons. It’s full of all that stuff people bought like crazy, for no apparent reason, which then forced them to go out and rent storage units. Today’s photo is [...]
I’m musing on school lunches today, because of two articles that popped up this morning. This essay was in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, on the end of 21 years of packing school lunches. And on a more somber note, this was sent by my friend Linda. The end of school means the end of a guaranteed meal for [...]
I was hesitant as I packed Noah’s school lunch last week. After all, the days of elementary school are behind us. He is a cool middle school kid now and I didn’t know the protocol for “tween” dining. There wasn’t a single step in the entire process that didn’t give me pause: Get out brown [...]
It’s always enlightening to have one’s foibles pointed out. “Do I really say that?” “I sound like that? Really?” Sometimes it’s not even necessary to seek confirmation. This morning as Hugh rummaged in the pantry to make his lunch (see post labeled Sifting Crumbs from Cheezits, last week), he said, “Malcolm honey, would you run [...]
