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    This woman’s work is DONE

    Like the drunk monkey said to Dr. Doolittle, “I give it up!”The monkey had a drinking problem and as he said those words he tossed his miniature flask to the ground. I’ve tossed my shovel to the ground. I too, “give it up!” In the month of March I set out to create this backyard oasis. I was determined to excavate the land, level out the hole with sand and lay pavers creating a beautiful patio. I wanted a platform for my outdoor seating area. Well, I spent weeks clearing the land. It’s about 25′ in diameter. And then, well, um, see, the project kinda, sorta, maybe got out of…

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    Now we’re cooking

    Okay, so I know this seems sudden, but I catered my first event yesterday. In fact, I’m so excited about it I can hardly sleep. It’s actually just a few minutes after midnight. Anywho, I learned during this event that I could really get used to this. I’ll fess up that it wasn’t a paying gig and the client is my mother-in-law, but her bookclub – a complete group of strangers – ate everything. They each deliberately consumed every morsel on their plates. A few even went back for seconds. That felt good. These weren’t friends or family members, these were some women I’d never seen in my life, but…

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    Wakeup Call

    Something happened to me the other weekend. I took a 3-day culinary basics workshop that has ignited change. For months, I’ve been day dreaming about cooking on a professional level. I do enough of it in my personal life to know I like it and that others like it too. I blog about it, read about it and watch shows about it. Cooking has become my thing. Or maybe it’s been my thing all along but I was too distracted by life to realize it until now. Cooking had become so much a part of the routine that I wasn’t even conscious of the joy, the peace, the excitement it…