The Buck and Mike Blog

This week I ran across a box of orange jelly sticks in, of all places, our local LDS bookstore near the Washington DC Temple. For the uninitiated, the best kind are dipped in the darkest chocolate available. They are packed neatly in tight parallel rows like good soldiers. Orange jelly sticks remind me of my mother. Growing up, I remember her opening a box every Easter and one at Christmas. Of all my siblings, I was the most taken with orange jelly sticks, so it was a guilty pleasure she and I shared.

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