Life Lessons

Reading the Cheese Curds

Reading the cheese curd is a bit like reading the tea leaves for a cheese nerd. Actually, cheese makers really do read the cheese curds looking…

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My Own Demons & Suicidal Thoughts

I am going to write about something deeply personal today. I can count the number of people that know about my suicide story on one hand…

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Time is Written in the Garden Weeds

My writing group teases me about numbers. I like numbers. They always appear in my writing. My writing group thinks my use of numbers is a symptom of my engineering past. I think using them is innate to me and how I function. Did my need to measure and quantify come before I went into engineering or did engineering turn me into a number cruncher?

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Reality Check about Recreational Cooking Class

Last night, I taught a cooking class in pie making focusing on two methods for crust. The location felt making a quiche and a double crust…

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What to write, what to write, what to write?

Hello world. I am stuck. I don’t know what to write in this space anymore. So, I am taking a writing workshop at GrubStreet in Boston….

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Bailing the Ship, Kicking off Ego Pirates

I love water sports. Unfortunately, my ego has gotten in the way of spending much time on the water lately. My never-ending battle to keep my…

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This IS what I do. Really, it is.

“What do you do for a living?” The question came before I launched into my usual witty and entertaining introduction that sets the class at ease….

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It’s January, Tip Generously

Near the end of December, as I skated toward NYE, I realized my digestive system, liver and wallet needed a break. So, on December 30th, I…

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Day 26: Homecoming

There are various reasons why I delayed writing about this last leg of my ride. Sure, returning to “real life” meant less time to write, but…

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