Baked goods

The novelist Douglas Coupland blogs on the Web site of the New York Times, and in a recent entry he recalled the events of Sept. 11, 2001. It turns out he was marooned here in Madison after all the flights were grounded:

By the fifth day in Madison, I was beginning to think, Hmmm ... maybe if I'm stuck here for the rest of my life I could make a go of it. It's a pretty little town -- like TV's "Happy Days" -- nice houses and Mrs. Cunninghams all over the place making endless batches of cookies and cooling them on the ledges of Dutch doors.

His impressions of our fair city seem accurate, up to a point. What he probably didn't realize is that there was pot in those cookies.