I am never ready for New Year’s Eve. One minute I am sampling a pumpkin pie/turkey sandwich combo just for the heck of it at the stroke of midnight and then next I am realizing I absolutely nothing to wear which turns out quite perfectly because I also have absolutely nowhere to go. It always …
Category: Growth
When Inspiration Fails You
Three days into my new mission to write more, share my food with people and pursue this so-called “calling”, everything came to a screeching halt. The inspiration was gone, the initial boost from the excitement of my friends had quieted and now it was just me. Just me, a blank page (a blank mind for …
Honesty Favors the Brave
Some of the best things in life are simple, but not easy. Honesty ranks among the most elusive. It’s easy to avoid being honest, without actually being dishonest or ever telling a lie. We’re not talking about people who are liars. Let’s assume we both agree that lying and being dishonest are bad things. At …
The Successful Whole30: A Whole Lotta Strategy
Me on Whole30: “Hey! I heard you might want to do Whole30 together!” Friend: “I have zero interest in doing Whole whatever that is.” Me: “So you’re saying there’s a chance…” And so it begins. So, what exactly IS Whole30? In a very concise version, Whole30 is designed to be a reset for your body. …
Relationships: An Exercise in Risk Management
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …