Mar
01
2009
Another year has gone by.
I have a few more gray hairs, I’ve probably added to my collection of laugh lines and my freckles? Well…I call ‘em freckles and not AGE SPOTS ‘cuz freckles are way more fun and if anything, I’m chock full o’ fun!!
Speaking of fun, I’ve been having a lot more of it. [...]
Jan
18
2009
I can cook.
I just don’t do any “real” cooking all that much. I consider “real” cooking to be cooking something that takes more than boiling water or reheating or even steaming.
Making toast? That’s not real cooking.
Making a sandwich? Not cooking.
Grilled cheese sandwich? OK. That counts. It mean, it’s actually something you can ruin. This criterion [...]
Jan
11
2009
As we all enter the new year in earnest, I’ve been thinking about beginnings.
For anything we hope to do or become, we have to start somewhere.
And we start…at the beginning.
At some point in my life I became afraid of starting anything new.
I became afraid. I was afraid of making mistakes. Of being hurt. Of looking [...]