Your fifth birthday partywhen our bonehead neighborblew out your candles andmade you cry…but some cake and ice cream sure helpedto make a great picture, Sweetheart. Eight years after that you opened yourgiant birthday present andsaw Shelby for the first time,bow around her neck,looking up at you for answers.What a great reason to cry again, … [Read more...] about Say Cheese!, By: Thomas Hemminger
Poems
Thoughts On Cheese, By: Paul L. Arvidson
In these depleted timesI find myself missing parmesan.It's unique, nutty, buttery accompaniment to pastamakes sense to me somehow.Then I wake myself upwith a slap round the face—What an arrogant, entitledfirst world problem,when families in warzones huddle for warmth,the only crumbling the ceilings of home,the fabric of society settlingon their human pile.How dare I want for … [Read more...] about Thoughts On Cheese, By: Paul L. Arvidson
The Cheesemaker’s Child, By: Melinda Tauler
There is nothing quite like the smell of cheese as it goes through the process of becoming a cheddar or a gouda. “Father, can we check the cheese?” His little voice still echoes in the icehouse where I visit to complete the task he so longed to be a part of. Big blue eyes and curly hair bob along in my mind’s eye – always watching, always waiting, and wondering when it … [Read more...] about The Cheesemaker’s Child, By: Melinda Tauler
Rollicking Cheeses, By: Mila Hasan
Cheese pleasure she withheldtoo amorous in its romantic chucklingtastebuds befuddled by the accent of the wedgeCheddar in some grilled cheese fantasy provided with a rarebit of delightmindful of the Brie mouthful in her sensation of aromatic fonduecrackers dipped in a Gruyere of displeasureBest cheese Edam-ed - egad it tastes sublimebut she wasn't having any of the old … [Read more...] about Rollicking Cheeses, By: Mila Hasan