By Jim Hagarty
2018
I threw out a loaf of bread the other day. It had grown lots of mold while sitting on top of the fridge. Regrettably, I do the same with cheese now and then, although I delay the inevitable as long as I can by cutting off the green parts. I think modern society has grown soft. They have found bread in Jordan that is 14,400 years old and recently, cheese was discovered in some pottery in Croatia that is 7,200 years old. Will they be throwing that stuff out? I don’t think so. And yet, into my garbage goes perfectly good bread and cheese that has passed its best-before date by only a week. I rest my case.
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Author: Jim Hagarty
I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.
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