Dispatches from Andyland

Remember as a kid sifting through all of your newly acquired Halloween loot and sifting through all of the good stuff (like the Milky Way bars and the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups) from all of the junk (like Mary Janes and Bit-O-Honeys?) This seems like the perfect answer for what to do with a all of the junk candy. According to Keene dentist offering kids cash for candy, this dental practice is buying up candy from children on a per pound basis. This sounds great! Keep all the good stuff, and sell the stuff you wouldn’t be eating anyway to Dr. Jeffrey Dixon.

Yesterday, I was fixing breakfast for Abbie. I was slicing a bagel for her and she said “last week at temple, I had a bagel with butter. Can I have my bagel with butter instead of cream cheese?” “Sure”, I said. “When I was a kid, we always ate our bagels with butter. We never had cream cheese in the house.”

Abbie cut me off and said “Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me. Cream cheese wasn’t invented yet, right?”