Author: Jim Mitchem

We have two daughters – Agatha, who is twelve, and Cozette, who just turned ten. They’re good kids. They don’t cuss.

This year my family took its summer vacation to the Central American nation of Belize.

On Sunday we returned from a great vacation in Belize. I’ll publish a post about it at some point, but let’s just say that we loved it enough to consider moving there.

There’s an expression among young Caribbean baseball players that goes, ‘You can’t walk off the island.’

Last night I had a dream.

You are what you eat. It’s an idiom kids in the 70s grew up with that made us think about the kinds of food we put into our bodies. But something has happened since then that is negatively affecting all of us and causing us to turn away from our core instinct to survive. We’re eating more processed food than ever. And why not? It’s cheap. It’s convenient. And it’s absolutely pervasive in America. It’s also is filled with toxins…