Hi, I'm David.

After drinking a Coke:

In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.

Six-year-old boys are cable-TV pundits without the audience or salary. They are all about sweeping judgments, and very, very strong opinions based on absolutely no evidence at all.

“I hate edamame.” (He has never tried edamame.) “Don’t take me to the Chelsea Piers bowling alley. It’s the worst.” (He has never been to the Chelsea Piers bowling alley.) One of Jasper’s new classmates asked him for a playdate on the first day of school. Jasper said sorry, he was busy. What about tomorrow? the kid asked. My son replied: “No. I’m busy for the rest of the year.”

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.