Day 641: Our Home And Native Candy

originally published October 2, 2013 When I was eight years old I endured the most boring vacation of my life. There were a few glorious days spent in Disney World and the newly-christened EPCOT, and also an imagination-tickling stop at Cape Canaveral to gawk at Columbia, asleep at her launch pad. But the majority of […]

Day 640: Henry’s Hallowed History

originally published October 1, 2013 I had no idea that a topic so innocent could spiral my clicking finger down an unusual rabbit hole such as this. It’s Candy Week here in my sunny thousand-day purgatory, and where I was eager to sink my sweet-hungry writing-teeth into the backstories of more treats from my youth, […]

Day 639: Giving Myself A Break Of Sorts

originally published September 30, 2013 I used to think I’d reach a point in my adult life when I’d no longer be drawn to candy. I had a notorious childhood sweet tooth and an addiction to mint imperials that in retrospect should have been handled with weekly meetings. But I assumed that one day I’d […]

Day 622: The Perfect Food

originally published September 13, 2013 In the sprawling kitchen of international cuisine, your teeth will never know a greater pleasure than when they sink into the perfect pizza. The specifics of that perfection are purely subjective; pizza can be a health food or a grease-laden fat-trap. You may prefer a dripping slab of foldable New […]

Day 606: Dining Up North

originally published August 28, 2013 Despite my locale in the dark frozen tundra of Canada (whose climate has actually been tolerably pleasant throughout August), the majority of my readership is located south of the border. That’s okay, I’m descended from hearty American stock – my grandfather actually played stickball in the streets of Brooklyn during […]

Day 575: The Cutlery At The Back Of The Drawer

originally published July 28, 2013 Every week, I receive hundreds of imaginary emails, asking why I haven’t yet written a piece on eating utensils. Not so much about the history of the fork, knife and spoon, the above-the-title stars of most of our meals, but about the other alternatives on the market. Well fictional fans, […]

Day 564: Have Gum Will Travel

originally published July 17, 2013 There is something blissfully inelegant about chewing gum. As soon as you pop it in your mouth, you are in possession of a piece of eventual garbage that, if you don’t start out with an exit strategy, may finish its life crammed under a desk or depurifying the bottom of […]

Day 524: In Praise Of The Mighty Doughnut

originally published June 7, 2013 The month of June is one often scowled at by office drones such as myself every year. Sure, we dads get a little love on the third Sunday, but there isn’t a single day off throughout the entire month. Where’s the joy? What do I do with that innate vibration […]

Day 510: Big Rocks & Big Eats

originally published May 24, 2013 As my fingers sloppily dance over my keyboard this morning, I reach the conclusion that I am suffering from an outlandish hangover. To be fair, my mind is luminously clear and my body is enduring only the normal aches and pains of an average 38-year-old in my shape (which falls […]

Day 486: My Golden Ticket To Big Rock’s Wonka-esque House of Magic

originally published April 30, 2013 Today, rather than order off my tired Wikipedian menu of kooky trivia, anecdotes from history or 990-word setups for a single joke about bacon, I’m going to cook up something special. I spent today (well, yesterday by the time my finger-tappings dance their way to my readers’ eyes) walking the […]