What’s the most commonly broken New Year’s resolution? You guessed it ÔÇô LOSE WEIGHT. You start out with the best intentions, but along the way, something always goes wrong… After emerging, bulging and gassy, from the egg-nog-spiked holiday season, with a veritable cheese ball lodged in your ever-expanding gut, you decide, enough is enough. You…
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The Moody Foodie
I’ll try anything once. Well, maybe not cliff diving, or running with the bulls, or a Mohawk hairdo, or snorting angel dust, or silicone lip injections. But when it comes to food, I’m totally adventurous. When our military family moves to a new place, I’m always excited to try the local cuisine. Sometimes, our experimentation…
I’m not worthy! Or am I …
Dear Meat & Potatoes of Life reader, Here’s the thing: I’m totally out of my league. Or at least that’s what goes through my mind when things like this happen to me. Call me whiney, insecure, crazy, certifiable, clinically psychotic with latent violent tendencies, WHATEVER…. but any time other people say I am “good” at…
Winter Wondering
I love snowy white winters, but ever since the Navy moved us to Florida, the only flakes we see are floating in milk-filled cereal bowls. So, I sit on my sunny screened porch in January, surrounded by green grass, ocean breezes, and palm trees, and I dream of snow. I know, I know, that’s nuts….
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