Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies

We all know that food can be comforting. It can also be healing—healing in the physical sense, as well as healing in the relationship sense. During the last year I was lobbying for SCEA, I had a knock-down, drag-out, noholds-barred battle with the chairman of the Employee Benefits Subcommittee in Ways and Means. He’d proposed something that the association I worked for vehemently opposed, and we both let it become personal. One day at lunch, we ended up sitting back to back in adjoining boo