Part IV of IV 2.14.2018 Risk management: I love it, made a career out of it, I obsess over it. I love the process of weighing the good and the bad, making lists of pros and cons, balancing the amount of risk warranted for any desired result. I love the decisiveness it provides when all …
Month: February 2018
The Anatomy of a Broken Heart
Part III of IV 2.14.2017 Somewhere in the middle of my 20’s, when life began to settle, I set my heart’s compass to find love, to get married and to have a family. One piece of advice I was given was to make a list of things I wanted in a husband but make five …
To the Woman You End Up With
Part II of IV 2.14.2016 To the Woman You End up With: When he has something to say, listen. Stop what you’re doing, give him your full attention and listen to him with your eyes. What he shares is special and if you show him it’s important to you, he’ll keep sharing. Bake for him. …
A Love Story
Part I of IV 2.14.2015 This is a true story. It’s a love story. It may just be the truest story of the truest love. Although it isn’t finished, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to be told. It starts with a man; he was handsome, strong, smart and always the calm for everyone. He …
Thai Meatballs with Peanut Dipping Sauce
I have a bit of a confession: I love meatballs. I don’t know exactly how this started but a few years ago, I came up with a traditional recipe and was hooked! They’re low carb, high (sometimes lean) protein, super flavorful and freeze great. What more could you ask for? I made and ate them …
Ray’s Rustic Rescue Soup
Ok, 4 days into following my calling. Great. It’s going great… To quote my good friend Bob Wiley, “I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful.” But isn’t your purpose supposed to help people or something? Not just be some kind of ongoing monologue about fruit and how you barely have any responsibilities? People …
Good or Bad, Hard to Say
There was this one time, I got divorced. Most people would probably say that was “bad”. There was a time I would have said it was; especially in the middle of it… “real bad” was the official rating, as I recall. I don’t like this + this is not the way things are supposed to …