Dear Readers: I’m up to my neck in writing right now, and will have a fresh new chocolate post out in a day or two.  In the meantime, here’s one of my favorites brought to you once more.

Even skinny people get fat.  This bewildering fact is slowly getting through to me.  After years of being so bone thin I had to shop for jeans in the toy department, I knew my chocolate consumption was out of hand when my daughter referred to my new size 10 jeans as “plus size.”  It’s true I’ve put on weight eating all this chocolate.  But it is also true that according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, I am one pound over the “ideal weight” for my height.  Yes, that’s right.  One pound.  And I’m sure that pound is pure muscle. Read More…