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I have a special, albeit unhealthy, relationship with food – right down to the way I eat certain things.

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Colors are great. I like color – a lot. Purple is my favorite, but I also like big yellow flowers and a clear blue sky, red apples, green grass, orange pumpkins, and rainbows.

So why is 90 percent of my wardrobe black?

I think most fellow fat people would agree, black is our friend.

I was a child unaware of the value of land. Though I grew up in an area with abundant land and resources, I didn’t think of such things as economic assets as a young girl. My parents and I lived a few alternative years in small structures in the woods during the construction of a new home and, believe me, I was a child unaware of the value of that experience.

It can ruin an adult's entire day and scar a child for life.  There is something savage, something barbaric and something downright uncivilized about taking kids to a restaurant.

We've all had to do it, either as a kid or as a parent, and it is one of those things all humans must do as part of the process of social acceptance.

And it's not easy.

It's been a tough winter for the cats in our house. Wafflehead died last year, and Mrs. Chef's special friend, Professor Roughstuff, took his final breath just last month.

What I told her in return was that this was the first year I'd even set foot out on the ice, and I've lived here for nearly thirty years. This past winter, I both walked out on the ice for the first time and drove out on it.

She thinks that's crazy. Not only have I never looked up the steel angle of an oil rig, I've never stepped inside an ice shack.

ST. JOHN VALLEY – Living in the St. John Valley has its challenges, including a never-ending financial struggle for many of its residents. Although it is easy to get caught in a panic about from where the money to pay the next unexpected expense is going to come, as a friend reminded me one day, this is the land of unlimited resources in many other ways.