Columns, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Where have all the spoons gone?

When I became the sole resident of my household for the first time in 30 years one of the tasks I tackled was a stringent decluttering of my kitchen, including the silverware drawer. No need to keep multiple mismatched sets of forks, knives, and spoons lying around for one human’s use, I reasoned, and whittled the contents of that drawer down to one (mostly) matched set.

With nearly two years of living with this…