My mind races to my childhood, and my grandmother’s farm. During the summer, I would often help with chores. As a reward she would make dinner, or at least offer a treat. A glass canister shaped like an oversized perfume bottle contained my favorite. The name Orange Slices implies these sugar-covered candies shaped like an orange segment had some redeeming characteristics to them.
“You realize there are no natural ingredients in those things,” a classmate pointed out as we sampled various foods, including my beloved Orange Slices.
Like a child that knew in the back of his mind that Santa didn’t exist, I was probably aware that these fixtures of my youth were a creation of chemicals melded together. Like a child, I was not ready to believe it.
Thirty years ago today, one of the most influential films of a generation was released in theaters. Star Wars is still extremely popular today after three decades. Hundreds of books, comics, and fan films have been written around the world that George Lucas created. To honor the birthday of this generational pop-culture phenomenon,