Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead?

a painting by John J.R. Stanhope

[courtesy of--http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/stanhope/paintings/3.jpg]

Milk & Cookies, The Fair Pt. I

Here's the first of three essays on the 2007 MN State Fair.The promised land.


It took me and my boyfriend about thirty minutes (in the sweltering, August heat) to find the origin of the mysterious tubs we saw people carrying.

"Plain or chocolate?" The dairy industry sponsors this booth every year: all the milk you can drink for $1. I was able to drink one and a half cups.


Milk and cookies, the advertising campaign...

Does this one really need a caption?