The Advantages of Naughtiness and Bad Behavior

Look! Here is a picture of me with Deanna Raybourn who I met at the Dahlonega Lit Fest. She calls HER Best Beloveds "Dearest Chickens," and is crazy-fun, but, I am sad to report, she is an addicted sugar-smoker.

Yes, Virginia, those are CANDY cigarettes. But they do not look like candy cigarettes, do they. When people decided that maybe cigarettes killed you after all, they kept making candy cigs, but called them CANDY STICKS. Even STICK sounded too lung-murdering to feed to children...