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Tradition, love, and recipes
My mom found it, while spring cleaning. We have been talking about it for a while. Oh, how we’ve longed for a cool, dense wedge of lemon pound cake. My […]
Rare sighting
Saturday, I got dressed. Glimpsed in the mirror and actually liked what I saw. A rarity. Excited. I called my daughter in my room for confirmation and she too agreed. I'm […]
Healthy and sick
I pride myself on working out, eating whole fresh foods, and resting -- the key ingredients to health. Such as life, there are periods were my habits are better, more consistent […]
Like The Incas
Most of us eat several times a day. Any slight sensation of hunger and we feed it. It’s even recommended to eat six smaller meals a day to keep our […]
Fresh and far away
We are so far removed from our food and its sources. A lot of our food, so-called food is made from a slew of hard to pronounce ingredients, in far […]
Walking proud and often
As a morbidly obese woman weighing in at a whooping 388 pounds. The normal everyday things were more like an obstacle course. I could barely walk. Forget about walking and […]
It doesn’t
When it comes to working out some days certainly are easier than others. I’ve been working out now on a regularly basis for a couple of years. I think, I’m […]
Tug-of-war
Squats. Lunges. Push-ups. Typical exercises found in most workout routines. We done plenty of them in yesterday's boot camp, but we also done a little something unexpected, something fun -- […]
Confident Chick
The fat girl has to try harder. So I did. I was funny, charming, and exuded confidence – nothing more than false bravado. I was always dressed to the nines […]
Believing in self
When I have the pleasure of delivering a speech. I explore five themes: Hard work, making adjustments, staying the course, believing in self, and never giving up. These very themes […]