apples

And the winner — or maybe we should say, loser — this year is ... strawberries.

I don't know about you, but most of my family members and friends are trying to lose weight.

These are the gentle years, beyond the rages of youth and the desperation of middle age, seasons of summer warmth, and skies so intensely blue that it hurts the eyes to gaze upon them.  Only God and the artist Magritte could paint such skies and implant such peace on a softening day in July.

Statins, schmatins. Just eat one whole apple a day and you can cut your cholesterol.

In the hopes of selling more apples -- including more pre-sliced fruit for snacking -- one biotech company is trying to bring to market a genetically altered apple that doesn't turn brown when it's bruised or cut.