Peace, Love, and Hostess Cupcakes

     Twinkies, I learned when teaching 8^th graders, have a shelf-life of 10 years or more.  Preservatives, sugar, sponge cake, cream filling, more sugar, and more preservatives fuel ADHD kids to delirium.  At the conclusion of one notable parent-teacher conference, the mom confessed, “I knew I should not have let him eat all those Twinkees.”
     Hostess cupcakes (orange=my favorite), Ding-Dongs/King Dongs, Twinkees, fried pies, and other delights that sugared our childhoods may forever fall from the grocery shelves and along with them, colorful balloon packaged Wonder Bread. With so much name recognition and brand surety, another buyer must rescue the company.  Childhood and second childhoods would not be the same without Hostess.
     Nothing stays the same, though, including holidays.  Some states, Colorado being primary, will be experiencing euphoria at the thought of relatives visiting. Imagine this conversation: “So, your mother is coming to spend Thanksgiving and stay through the New Year?  Hey.... that’s totally cool.  She can have our room. Cool! Love it.” My sister-in-law might invite me and all my family to spend the holidays with her and my brother. She’ll cook enough food for an army and after we’ve eaten the first morsels, we’ll all form a Love Commune and live together in peace and harmony forever more.
      It must be a Christmas Miracle!  Yep, it is.  Colorado legalized not only medicinal but recreational use of marijuana.  Blend it, pour it, shake and bake it, add it with granola to your cereal, include it as a spice in all your recipes.  “Let Peace Begin With Me” – the new State Motto of Colorado!