I just finished eating a marzipan egg with a hard candy shell and I will eat another when this newsletter is scheduled. The ADHD Hyperfocus Stimulance playlist is not working as promised. And I spy seventeen assorted pens on my desk. Coherence I can not promise today, but here are some odds and ends that I’ve been reading, thinking about, or eating, lately.

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The difference between flotsam and jetsam is intent. Both are debris found in bodies of water, but one (flotsam) got there accidentally, and the other (jetsam) was heaved overboard in distress. The difference matters because, legally, the original owner is entitled to getting flotsam back if salvageable. But once the jetsam is thrown into the water, it belongs to whoever discovers it. I learned this on an official US Government website so I won’t be linking to it.

I make myself dog food every morning. The same overnight oats with chia seeds and water, with yogurt and whatever fruit I have around added right before eating. Anna was posting about this a month or so ago: eating the same breakfast everyday, like a dog, won’t kill you. In fact, it may help you/me live. My mood and hormones and energy and tasks shift daily. Breakfast is something one can grasp onto and depend upon if the decision is made ahead of time. A meal template is the farthest thing from new – it’s actually really old, because a template forced through lack of choice was how most people have eaten until recently. I stir my meal, porridge, glop, mush, and think, lucky dog.

Tuesday evening was a perfect Phoenix spring night: 81F as the sun set. My family and I went to the park and there happened to be an event going on with live music, crafts, and food trucks. Never one to miss an opportunity for a surprise snack, I waited in a short line with my two eldest kids at a Hawaiian truck. My son jostled my arm, laughing and pointing – a fuel tank attached to the back of the truck was painted to look like a soy sauce bottle. People are wonderful sometimes.

Read my story, "Inventing a True Thing," in Tomato Tomato, a brand new magazine that Alicia Kennedy founded! I got to interview four of my food writing idols about their fiction projects. And then keep reading the rest of the first issue, it’s stacked with great stories.

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