Table Talk

I don't know how your dinner conversation went, but here's how ours ended. After Bryant sneezed out a nice chunk of apple, I said, "Jeff, what are we going to do about this?!"

Brad pipes up, "We could just not feed him for a couple of years."

"Yeah. That would work," I say.

"Mom, how long can people go without eating?"

Teachable moment, right? "Well, we know at least 40 days, because that's how long Jesus went."

"Yeah. But that's Jesus."

"Well, Jesus was human, you know. I think you can go something like 50 days without food, but only about ten without water."

"A cockroach can live ten days without its head!"

And now you know. Don't even bother to look it up.