Twirling Book Princess

“Quick,” I said. “We don’t have long. The sugar rush from dessert is about to kick in.”
Everyone laughed but I wasn’t trying to be funny. I’d learned to dread sugar. American food seemed to be laden with it, even the healthy stuff. Like “raisin bran” — each raisin came in a crystallized winter coat of silvery refined sugar. One moment the kids would be okay — I could get them sitting quietly in the rec hall, painting or whatever. Then they’d have a snack and suddenly it was like being in a Roy Lichtenstein painting — all KABAAM and WALLOP, as they ricocheted off the walls, running about and fighting with each other.