A friend posted a comment about gun control on Facebook: “If guns kill people then … spoons make people fat.”

Whoa! Spoons make ME fat!

I only use them for dessert (okay, soup and cereal, but my cereal may as well be a dessert).

And I'm quite particular about the spoons I use. Thin, not thick. Not too light, definitely not too heavy. They can be inexpensive, but they can't be “cheap.” Stainless as opposed to silver or that abominable metallic-tasting silverplate.

Here's my favorite for most desserts. I bought a set of four at a department store in Paris in 1999 – only two remain. Maybe that's because they're perfect grandchild size, too. The best thing about them is the size of the bowl, large enough to get a decent portion and small enough to make dessert last longer.

A friend of one of my children went to Italy and asked me what she could bring me back. I showed her my little spoons. A few months later she gifted me with a package of spoons – one stolen from every place she stayed!

And I don't use any of them – the bowl is wrong. But the grandchildren don't mind.

It’s not good to eat too much honey, and it’s not good to seek honors for yourself. Proverbs 25:27