Living in America ...

Out in the country there are so many things to avoid such as the three poisons, ivy, oak and sumacs. Then there are ticks, lyme's disease, snakes and God knows what else. One must avoid the television as well or soon you will find yourself repeating the inane babble you heard on ailse eight in the grocery store last night, Cereal Canyon, when some woman said, "I can't believe it, I just missed my FAVORITE reality show." But perhaps the greatest danger of navigating through this land of plenty is, well, the plenty itself. Every restaurant piles your plate high with as many calories as they can, ziggaurats of food, most of it fried.