YES. Plastic. Tupperware. Packaged and processed, refrigerated food, trucked to us from all over the country, grapes from Chile and Argentina going to the Midwest, even though grapes grow in the US. Most of our beef comes from South America? Canada? China? None of it makes sense.

I signed up for a ghost-writing gig, $500 for a 50,000 word pulp romance, and I'm hating myself for being talked into it.... deadlines! Slave wages! no ownership, just write and hand it off and never see it again, not even the title or the cover art. Really???? WHY DID I AGREE TO THIS MADNESS