
Le Pièce de Résistance
Recently, as I presented a casserole made for my grandmother out of a certain canned spare animal parts product, with love as only such a casserole could be made by a vegetarian, I sarcastically exclaimed, with my best French accent — which, according to my middle school French teacher, is pretty darn good — “here is my pièce de résistance!” Too often, we fail to engage with life because we think our actions will not be consequential. Lack of impact becomes conflated with mea