Facts

Eating like shit will kill you - if not in body then certainly in spirit and soul.

It is better to spend $6 on 1 pound of bacon without preservatives than to spend $1 on 6 pounds with them.

White flour has the same nutritional value as shoe leather and notebook paper. Same goes for white sugar and iceberg lettuce.

Cheap food is cheap food for a reason - it's a deal at who's expense? The buyer's.

I've written those facts more for my own benefit than for yours.

Some things are adjustable. Some things are not. Read your labels.

Occasionally, personal property tax bills get lost. Occasionally the personal property tax officers are awesome. Today, both happened.

It's a good idea to test clean a patch of a hand sewn silk quilt *before* your 5 year old vomits on it.

The quickest way to discover that you don't want to do something anymore is to advertise that you are doing it.

6 weeks is not enough notice to rent a park pavilion. Dammit.

Tempeh is da shit.

Having a Pen Pal, even when you're not old enough to write anything yet, has value beyond words..

Analyzing everything is just pointless and wastes time, energy, and emotion. Hell, even Freud took a day off. Give it a rest already!

Kids are listening all the time - even when they're not in the room.

They will also hide the fact that they can read from you until your write out what you bought them for their birthday.

$20 for a wooden train seems like an incredible waste of money until you see the proud new owner of said train introduce his new buddy to everyone within earshot - the gas station clerk, the checker and the produce guy at Hy-Vee, the dog next door ...

Butterflies are not for sale and man does not control the wind. Get out and enjoy them before they are all gone.