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As a break from this all-to serious year, I've been listening to news from Lake Woebegon. And Garrison Keeler has clued me to an answer for what may be the writer's primary dilemma, which is what to write about. He told of a snowstorm in July that he witnessed but nobody else did. He felt God inviting him to spread the word about that snowstorm, I guess as a sort of prophecy that anything could happen. He declined the invitation, deciding that would make people uncomfortable and people don't listen to storytellers who make them uncomfortable. 
 

Having spend lots of years as a single adult I have developed a certain attitude toward food preparation.  

My ideal home-cooked meal is tasty, nutritious, easy to prepare, and a cinch to clean up after, which usually means it requires only one pot or pan.

And these days, since I recently lost twenty pounds and would prefer to lose another ten or so, I prefer meals featuring no more than around 500 calories. 

Hamburgers are tasty and reasonably nutritious, especially if garnished with lettuce and tomatoes.

                    

While I was adding on many of the pounds I have recently been struggling to lose, Zoe and I set out to find our favorite hamburger joint. One of our favorites was the Habit, whose burgers, researchers claim, supply about 470 calories for a single and 600 for a double. 

So if I eat one of them, I had better stick to the single and skip the onion rings and shake. 

Back in my wildly experimental youth, I often tried veggie-burgers. But even earlier, during my formative years, my dad was a wholesale meat salesman, which may be a reason veggie-burgers didn't feel like comfort food. 

Now I may have found a compromise, a lower calorie, more nutritious burger. A somewhat comfortable veggie-burger. A veggie-burger I can live with. Well, I haven't tried it yet but certainly will. 

I will make it a double burger with baked onion rings.

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