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” »


November 22

Disappointingly, no one has ever asked me what happened to the fabulous Christmas cookies I used to make for everyone.  I thought I had created this time honored tradition with my terrific genuine Scottish shortbread recipe.  Apparently not.  Fortunately, because […]

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November 21

There are plenty of things I can do to get the holiday spirit beside cook and eat.  When I was growing up, perhaps because we belonged to an active church community, we did all kinds of Christmas things that didn’t […]

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November 20

Practice HALT– Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.   My friend’s daughter recently told her that she had actually hated the holidays growing up as her single Mom turned herself into a pretzel trying to create for her the perfect Christmas.  There is certainly […]

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November 19

Just not gaining weight during the holidays, while perhaps a vast improvement and not to be discounted, is not as good as it will need to be if you currently weigh a lot more than you want to.  It would […]

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November 18

“After this” is one of the main ways we not only pack on weight, but never learn to navigate whatever “this” is.  There is always something to wait out, something to eat over, something to celebrate.  In January there is […]

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November 17

I have also found that when I am really “good”, that begets being even better.  I sort of hate to ruin the good roll I am already on.  When I am my on-track self for a few days, I actually become […]

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