It's always fun to look back at the columns I wrote long ago. And 1997 brought the light (see "That is not my pink dog") to the serious. There were a couple Thanksgiving columns … one serious, one not serious. The same for Christmas.
But the one that really stands out is about "A New Bridge Coming … 2001." Ha! It is now 2010 and the bridges are still going up. And, yes, 1997 was the year we decided that the chocolate chip cookie, invented in Massachusetts, would indeed be the official state cookie.
