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Thin: A Rant

First . . . I have to tell you that I ate cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and I have, I'm sorry to say, a bellyache.  But . . . it was pretty much totally worth it!  Those cookies, the one I gave you a recipe for a few days ago, thems are the BEST. Now on to my rant . . . get excited . . . So, this morning as I was driving down to get my haircut (and ps I LOVE my stylist . . . ask me her name and I'll give it) listening to Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints CD (it's stuck in John's CD player so we get to hear it a lot) and he sang, "A trip to the Market/ a trip around the world/ where the evening meal is negotiable/ if there is one. . . . " That last part-- where the evening meal is negotiable if there is one --made me pause and think really hard.  I thought about a conversation I had last night with my friend Alison about what the teacher in our elementary school maturation program said. Alison said that when the teacher was talking about ...