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Morning Musings: December 21

Dec 21, 2024

It’s my friends’ fault because…they are not complimenting me anymore.  A lot of people lose momentum once people are no longer noticing or commenting.  I know I had to get used to it when I had quit smoking.  I thought […]

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Morning Musings: December 20

Dec 20, 2024

The devil made me do it…we had to stop at fast food for the kids.  It is so easy to assume that kids wouldn’t want to eat anything healthy.  I have had several clients put out something like sugar snap […]

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Morning Musings: December 19

Dec 19, 2024

The devil made me do it…my husband only likes his chicken fried.  Case in point:  Let’s call them Claire and Lou.  Somewhere along the line that marriage was brand new – with no cooking history, a blank page to be […]

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Morning Musings: December 18

Dec 18, 2024

The devil made me do it…I have a reputation to uphold.  I can inadvertently become the victim of the reputation I created.  One of my good friends regularly gets in the most trouble with the leftovers of whatever she cooks […]

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Morning Musings: December 17

Dec 17, 2024

Food people are about food…it isn’t diamonds.  I know how I am about food.  Once it is there, I am not likely to throw it away.  The longer I own it, the more attached to it I become.  Each time […]

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Morning Musings: December 16

Dec 16, 2024

Food people are about food…food people volunteer for food related activities.  I know that I really have to watch that tendency – being the one to run the Cookie Exchange, manning the bake sale, interacting with the caterer, picking up […]

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Morning Musings: December 15

Dec 15, 2024

We food people are about food…how many innocent family members have had things supposedly brought/purchased/baked for them that they never even set eyes on?  One of my clients used to go to seminars at her college regularly that served these […]

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Morning Musings: December 14

Dec 14, 2024

We food people are about food…we food people bring food.  Food is such an easy thing to bring; much less work than figuring out something else more creative.  Most everyone I know brings junk to people in the hospital (and […]

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Morning Musings: December 13

Dec 13, 2024

We can train people’s expectations…in a good way.  Training the people at work, our friends, or in our favorite restaurants can really work to our advantage…sometimes even when we don’t want it to. Case in point:  One of my clients […]

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Morning Musings: December 12

Dec 12, 2024

We can train people’s expectations…in a good way.  Training the people at work, our friends, or in our favorite restaurants can really work to our advantage…sometimes even when we don’t want it to. Case in point:  One of my clients […]

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