Age does seem to matter and it has been on my mind. As you might now expect from me, let us first consider age from a shellfish perspective.

In 1991, the American linguist John Algeo wrote: “A community is known by the language it keeps, and its words chronicle the times.

Christmas is a time for sharing, and with that in mind, it’s been a holiday tradition for me to share with you my obsession with all things shellfish. My gift to you is this essay wherein I hope to make some sense of the current state of the world in the context of our shared shellfish heritage. Weird, you might say. Well, maybe. Let me explain.