A time to eat more cookies?
by Bob Schwartz
I eat a healthy diet. I do not overeat. I do not stress eat. I do not have a particularly sweet tooth.
Lately I’ve noticed a small increase in my cookie eating. Not a big increase, just a few more at a time. Small but noticeable.
It may be these times. Things are stranger than usual, probably stranger than they have been in a long, long time. All signs are that things may be getting stranger soon and for a while.
Oreos don’t correct or solve any of the strangeness. But as we look forward to things getting a lot less strange, a little more chocolate, a little more sweetness, can go a long way.
© 2025 by Bob Schwartz
Bob Schwartz 
Really good gellato does it for me, preferably chocolate.
Good choice. Note that the common denominator is chocolate, which is proven to be a world-class mood enhancer. Speaking of chocolate and the world, the U.S. now has tariffs on the import of cocoa from major producers, including Cote D’Ivoire (21% tariff) and Ghana (10% tariff). If the administration was smart, which it’s not, they would eliminate tariffs on cocoa so that chocolate would be cheaper, and they could give away chocolate to make people feel better about awful things. They could even use the example of the Baby Ruth candy bar, which the maker said was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter Ruth (though actually named after Babe Ruth, something the company denied). How about the administration giving away a candy bar named after one of Trump’s kids, maybe the Baby Eric? Or how about MASA–Make America Sweet (or Sane) Again?