Fasting and Other (Not) Fun Things

Lent is hard. Fasting is hard.

Add that to the list of historical “No kidding, Captain Obvious” quotes – right up there with Legolas’s “The horses are restless” gem from the film version of The Return of the King.

(The hubs and I mock Legolas mercilessly, I’m afraid. They really did give him one too many “Well, duh” things to say – and he has to say them all so nobly, like every word is erudite and poetic. I digress…)

The difficulty of fasting for me is that I usually equate it with...