If only Elmer's Glue was made of Chocolate... little Sherry Holms would not have been such an outcast in the second grade...

When I was growing up I loved to visit the Allison's house. There were lots of reasons for this, not the least of which was that they always had a bottomless cookie jar. This was such a treat!  We rarely had cookies at our house, and going to the Allison's home always involved cookies. And not the healthy oatmeal and raisin types. Marie Allison was a die hard chocaholic (the misspelling here is deliberate- more on that later) so there were always Chocolate cookies in Marie's cookie jar.

This cookie jar thing wasn't just a courtesy, it was a policy. Marie had the philosophy that if you kept a full jar of cookies out all the time, that eventually it would become less special and that everyone would learn a lesson in moderation. The theory sounded good at the time, and I totally supported it because I loved Chocolate cookies! Unfortunately, the lesson backfired and most of us grew up to have weight issues despite Marie's best efforts.

But the thing that Marie's cookie jar experiment did teach me was a deep love and respect for the power of chocolate. Not that those cookies and accompanying hot cocoa were really gourmet or anything, they weren't. The chocolate was the medium for the message. It held us together like yummy gooey chocolate glue.... mmmmmm. We would sit and sip cocoa for hours and talk about life and laugh until we couldn't laugh any more. ...and I swear it wasn't just the sugar high. I grew up during those talks. Chocolate has that kind of power. I'm pretty sure a bottomless bowl of broccoli would not have drawn me in. I might be thinner, but I would not have spent that kind of quality time with Marie. So, today make it a point to eat some chocolate glue with a friend. And check it out, maybe it would work on those macaroni pictures. mmmmmmm... macaroni pictures....