I needed to have that dessert again. The time of year was making it happen: the transition from summer to autumn, the beginning of college football…and a cherry Blizzard I had on the way back from the first college football game I covered for my college radio station. This was early September of 1997, on the way back from St. Olaf College, having done a bit of sideline reporting for the Luther College radio station covering the football game between the two schools. We stopped at a DQ, I got that Blizzard (expensed to the station — this became a sneaky good perk during my years broadcasting games as a student) — and it went down as one of my fave desserts of all time. I don’t quite know why that one was made so well, but it was a great cap to a warm, sunny day that also was my first-ever day of a radio career that’s still going as I type this blog.