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Three Questions, December 28, 2024

Three Questions, December 28, 2024 You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we … Continue reading

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Three Questions, December 27, 2024

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. ~ Benjamin Spock Three Questions, December 27, 2024 You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions … Continue reading

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Three Questions, December 9, 2024

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~ Ashley Montagu Three Questions, December 9, 2024 You can find the background to The Three Questions in … Continue reading

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Cooking Makes Me Happy

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I’m cooking. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein Cooking Makes Me Happy So this week a friend posted a picture from one of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans, Cochon. He was … Continue reading

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The Joy of Growing and Cooking Food

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne It’s funny, because I’m a single guy and too many people have a sitcom level of understanding of the complexity of … Continue reading

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Make a Little Happiness

There is no sincerer love, than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw It’s been raining in Northern California pretty much constantly since December 24th. I happily avoided a week of the rain by being in the Mojave Desert … Continue reading

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I Love Thanksgiving

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good. ~ Ina Garten I love Thanksgiving and this year I decided to go … Continue reading

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Food makes me happy

I love food, I love to cook and I especially love to eat. As I relayed in last week’s post one of the several reasons that I love Thanksgiving so much, it is very much a cooking and eating holiday … Continue reading

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I Love the Fall

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ George Eliot I love fall, there’s a smell on the air that always says … Continue reading

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A Day of Rest

So, if you’ve been following this blog you know that recently I’ve been talking about some of the struggles I’ve been having. As I continue to climb out of the well of depression, there are simple things that I always … Continue reading

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