I love chocolate pudding, chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate pie, chocolate chip cookies – you name it, if it’s soft and chocolaty, I’ll eat it.
My late husband Bill also loved chocolate. In 2005, we planned to ring in the new year with a French silk pie from Schwann. But after serving us each a slice, when Bill tried to put the pie back in the refrigerator, he somehow dropped the container, and the pie ended up on the floor. Instead of toasting the new year with French silk pie, we were cleaning it off the kitchen carpet. You can read more about our adventures in my memoir, My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds.
When I was a kid, I wouldn’t drink milk unless it was chocolate. Though milk with chocolate syrup was okay, I preferred the more expensive ready-made chocolate milk.
As an adult, I developed a taste for regular milk. I now drink it all the time, plain or added to Cappuccino and cocoa for a richer flavor. Since diabetes runs in my family, I’m trying to limit my sugar intake. Most of my chocolate treats are sugar-free: pudding, cocoa, Cappuccino. Once in a while, I’ll have other sugary chocolate treats. I’m thankful for this versatile flavor.
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This is the third installment in my food gratitude series, inspired by the book, This Is How We Eat, which I reviewed here. What are you grateful for this week? Please share in the comments or on your own blog with a link to this post. On this Easter Sunday, I hope you’re blessed with lots of chocolate-covered goodies in your basket. Thank you for reading and always be grateful.
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As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else’s. You’re invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There’s the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student’s prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.
In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and sometimes relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes all occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. Ordinary people deal with everyday and not–so–everyday situations.
The 25 stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how the various characters resolve their conflicts—or not.
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