Tag: sugar

  • Have You Ever Bletted a Medlar? Me Neither.

    Never forego the opportunity to add new words to your vocabulary. Doing so is especially gratifying if they refer to something so foreign to your experience as to seem otherworldly. If you can throw in a little bit of potty humor for good measure, then so much the better, as far as I’m concerned. I…

  • Mountain Tubing in Kauai

    I was thinking about what this place had been like when the sugarcane plantation was still there.

  • Please, No Sweets This Holiday Season

    I’d much rather have the pleasure of your company.

  • Healthy Self-Soothing

    Here are some suggestions that I’m going to try to take instead of consuming sugar and/or grease.

  • I Love You, Honey

    I was sitting in the back yard the other day, watching the dogs play and enjoying the sun, when a bee landed on my hand. In my younger days this would probably have freaked me out. I don’t want to get stung. Who does? But now I’m a lot calmer and more logical. I wasn’t…

  • My Favorite Things

    When I was a child I used to drink Hawaiian Punch and Tang by the 50 gallon drum. Now I can’t stand the stuff. I also used to eat Cap’n Crunch straight out of the box as a snack. Ugh, the thought of that much sugar makes me feel slightly ill now. No one is…