To lighten the load of a week frought with heaviness, here's a delicious article about chocolate chip cookie baking.
Also, bonus info, the Massachusetts State Cookie is the Chocolate Chip Cookie:
Massachusetts State Cookie: Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Chocolate Chip Cookie was designated the official cookie of the Commonwealth on July 9, 1997. A third grade class from Somerset proposed the bill to honor the cookie invented in 1930 at the Toll House Inn and restaurant in Whitman.