Dinner with a side of life.
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 …
Right around my early 20’s was when I first started to fall in love with food and cooking. At this time, I also began working with another colleague who I quickly discovered shared the same love for food and the adventure it offered. Although our careers were completely unrelated to anything culinary, we became fast …
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 …
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 …
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. …
It’s Winter…it’s Spring… it’s Winter… Nobody knows! What I do know, is that the first day of Summer is the same amount of days away whether it’s sunny or snowing outside in the middle of April and if that’s the case, I am going to need a salad for dinner. If you’re like anything like …
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 …
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 …