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I noticed cherries at the grocery store the other day and got a bit nostalgic. Cherries bring back fond memories of childhood when I lived in Traverse City, MI where it seemed like cherries grew from everywhere...at least in my kiddo memories.

White peaches are also a favorite of mine. When not in season, you can find these peaches frozen. Here is a quick recipe for a non-dairy smoothie at about 195 calories. You can switch out the fruit and put in your fave. If you add banana, it will thicken up even more.

•  1 cup Organic Rice Milk Original* (110 calories, 2.5g fat, 20g carb, 1g protein)
• 10 fresh cherries (45 calories, 10g carb, 1g protein)
• 1/2 fresh medium white peach (a whole peach is 40 calories, 9g carb, 1g protein)
• handful of ice cubes

• Pit the cherries, and the peach. I keep the skin on the peach because there are plenty of nutrients in the skin. The blender pulverizes the fruit anyway so you won't be swallowing any chunks of peach skin.
• I only put half the peach in so that I can enjoy the other half to munch on.
• Put all ingredients in a blender and frappawhiz.
• Sometimes I will throw in a couple teaspoons of flaxseed oil to get some Omega-3s in my body.

(putting this up here to bookmark it for myself for later) (this is just the sort of recipe I need)

Fred Wilson was not afraid to drop a pretty serious metaphor today:

The mess we are in right now in America is that we are spending too much and not taxing enough. We are an unprofitable business with a balance sheet that is starting to worry our creditors and investors. If you could short America, the sharks in the market would be all over that trade.

Nor was he afraid to sneak that little cherry on top shark metaphor in there at the end. 

Nor, apparently, was I afraid to call a shark a cherry and make it three metaphors in a row.