Choice cut

When it comes to nutrition, it's all about choices. Last evening Teri, my wife of four months, had just returned from the dentist after having a root canal. She was limited in what she could eat. Of course, she loves Jell-O and could have lived on that for a month. But we needed something more substantial — and something she could eat using just the right side of her mouth. So we chose pizza. The real choice, however, was between thick crust and thin crust. We chose thin crust. We also chose medium size rather than large size or family size.

It might also have been better to cook the pizza and then immedicately cut and wrap half to put in the freezer for a future meal. There is still plenty of room for improvement.

Life is like that. Whether we live to 70, 80, 90 or 100, there will always be something in the in-basket, something still being "worked on," when we die. We are not afraid of death. We are afraid that the pile in the in-basket will be embarrassingly large.