Hi, friends.

Just wanted to point out a few small changes to the site, underwritten by the move from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 — just as all the hip kids (or is that the nerdy ones?) — are going from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. (Drupal is an open-source content-management system and blogging platform.)

My story on Patti Small, who takes her ever-more-popular service of sharpening knives to farmers' markets in Greater Boston, was in the Globe today. You may recall that I also featured her on my blog not too long ago.

Another excerpt from "Animal Vegetable Miracle," Barbara Kingsolver's 2007 book. This one comes from the same paragraph we visited last time, but I wanted to make a separate point:

Crop failure is a possibility all farmers understand, and one reason why the traditional farmstead raised many products, both animal and vegetable, unlike the monocultures now blanketing our continent's midsection. [p. 54]

The notion of crop failure — hell, the notions of crops at all, as opposed to consumer goods sold under plastic wrap in supermarkets, has longer standing in most Americans' thinking — came to me in a new way during the hurricane last month.

On Twitter, I follow the hash tag "food addiction," and it is startling how seldomly those who bother to deploy the tag are talking about food addiction.

"Theres nothing worse than reaching for a pizza roll and realizing they're all gone" - #foodaddiction"

"ya man cheers for many more trips to noodles." #foodaddiction

"I'm addicted to the Pomegranate! #FoodAddiction! lmao!"

Oh, my tweeps, if you only understood that to food addicts, food addiction isn't quite as funny.

#alcoholism!

Woo. hoo.

Another bite from "Animal Vegetable Miracle," Barbara Kingsolver's 2007 book:

I don't know much about Deepak Chopra, other than that he's established himself as a brand on matters involving personal health. That is to say, I've heard of him, and perhaps seen him on TV talk shows, and whatever impressions I have of him are neutral-positive.

Usually, I try to have a larger point when I post, but I haven't found it yet for this one: Still, I'm pretty sure it fits in here somewhere.

Saturday was my wife's birthday. I went about my early day, including two-plus hours in the cooperative community garden whose second season is (sadly) drawing to a close.

Possibly as a result of a listing of telephone support meetings for anorexics and bulimics, a friend sent me a list of telephone-support meetings affiliated with Overeaters Anonymous. I'm happy to share them as well.

A version of this was also posted today at Sprout Savvy. I'm delighted to share with them, and delighted they invited me to.

One of the first questions people have for me is, Never mind how you lost 155 pounds, how have you been keeping it off for almost 20 years?

I have several answers, depending on how much time we have, but the best, most accurate one is, I finally realized and accepted that I’m a citizen of the planet.

Is it common for sick people to wish they had a different disease, if they have to have one at all? I don’t know, but a couple of examples have come up for me in the two decades I’ve identified as a food addict.