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I have given this post a number because I anticipate there will be future posts about my body, so this number system will serve as a sub-chronicle. I have all kinds of memories about my body and how I feel about it. When I was born, fat babies were considered healthy and I was a […]

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In the past few years, willpower has been getting more and more attention. From blogs to news articles all of which point to our limited ability to exercise constant decision making of all kinds, including choosing a salad over a basket of fish and chips. It seems we are able to make a finite number […]

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Ideally, eating is a social event, but many of us end up cooking for one. For me, meals are better shared with someone, and savored with conversation and companionship. Many of my meals however are eaten in solitude. I have friends who are happy to eat a bowl of cereal or ice cream for dinner […]

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Cooking and teaching someone to cook are vastly different. Both take a certain amount of patience, but teaching requires a very different level of attention. When my daughter was eight I asked her if she wanted to start learning to cook. She was excited, we got a kids cookbook, and I let her choose what she […]

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