Our family consumes a lot of cheese. Before I was vegetarian, we used to buy big loafs of cheese from BJs and consume a couple a week. Nowadays, I buy a whole bunch of these tiny little 8oz cheese blocks that cost a fortune. Furthermore, they cost more than most of the [...]
The other month an old friend from high school contacted me via facebook. I hadn’t communicated with her for 8 or 9 years. Anyway, we only messaged once; but I got a chance to look at her profile (and she probably looked at mine). Hers had this interesting bit about how she’s [...]
The following is most of a letter to the editor in a recent issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette, Penn’s Alumni magazine. It was written in response to an article about health care: