Who could ever have imagined a world in which we drive store to store in search of toilet paper, especially here in the Paper Valley? It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. But, it doesn't have to be an angry one. It's a disappointing world, especially for people who've worked their whole lives to qualify [...]
More than almost anything else, my mother loathes butter. Her standard breakfast order -- dry toast, crisp bacon, eggs scrambled hard -- is a mandate not a request. Should butter appear on her plate, she will lose her appetite for the entire meal and the offending restaurant will face her non-negotiable butter boycott. So, when [...]