One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for January 16, 2024

Cylene isn’t worth the salt in either your tears or your crackers.

And you don’t want to get into the habit of using food to soothe your feelings.

So saltines are plan B, then Ruthie?

Just becauze you don’t like someone doesn’t mean they’re incapable of hurting your feelings.

She’s learning, everything is transactional.

Saltines for Cylene . A poetic way of dealing with it.

Salitnes for Cylene. a very poetic way of dealing with it.

Saltine crackers will not ruin Ruthie’s hunger or hurt feelings.

A theater friend told me in a restaurant one night that a director named Randy was going to direct a play I was interested in. After he left my wife said, “But you don’t like Randy!” I replied, “That doesn’t mean I don’t want to like Randy.”