Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


October 1

Mind Games can take any form that gets the job done – promises, excuses, rationalizations, self-pity, self-recrimination, blame, perfectionism, etc.  But they all have one thing in common:  they disempower me by letting me off the hook from figuring out […]

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September 30

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I am unwilling to part with the leftovers.  If I need to get rid of something after it has been served, I usually need to arrange for that in advance since […]

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September 29

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…it is a segue food (much like the concept of a gateway drug).  A great example of this for me is the rice on a Chinese buffet.  Not a terrible food.  […]

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September 28

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…my history with it overrides my appetite mechanisms.  Case in point:  I have a client who has a family tradition of making these special Easter cheese pies and meat pies, a […]

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September 27

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I ignore my genuine desire to be an unselfish person and have to have the biggest piece.  I try my best to be a giver, really I do.  Not really my […]

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September 26

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I will go waaaaay out of my way to get it.  If I am willing to walk to the other building and up three flights of stairs, negotiate a highly  trafficked […]

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