The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

I confess - I like junk food, especially salty, crunchy, fat-laden potato chips. An open bag is an empty bag.

Of course potato chips don't provide anything positive in the way of nutrition but they sure taste great in the moment.

Some books are like junk food. They offer a tasty high- calorie reading experience but lack " nutrition" to stimulate the reader's emotional or intellectual growth - and sometimes that's just okay.

This summer, I've been on a junk-food book binge because my life circumstances are a bit overwhelming and my stress meter has been bouncing around in the red zone. Junk foo...