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Backed into the salad bar - week 1

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[one unsuspecting Monday morning...] Aw crap, it's happened.  Ginger Salad I got the call from the doctor this morning that my cholesterol levels were bad and my sugar was just over the line of bad. It's the call we know is coming, but we dread.  Over the last 4 years, after having gotten to my goal weight, I backslid hard. It happens. I got really good at making things full of sugar and fat in culinary school and made treats nearly every night. It's not their fault.  Everything that was a craving food I ate. I binged at night until I got tired of eating, not giving a second thought to my health, just my waistline. I lamented how crappy I felt in the morning, and how my clothes don't fit and how I hate shopping for clothes.  I can't say I have the best attitude about this.  [two days later...] I'm not sure the scale is right, but it seems like I lost 5 pounds already. I've been eating 3 meals, trying to  lessen the amount of fried food, butter, white carbs,

November writing prompt day 2 of 30

Your Earliest Memory My memories seem to center around a place. Other than impressions and dreams about our place in Dayton, Ohio, I think my first real memories happened in Wichita Falls, Texas. I was 5 when we moved there from Ohio and we moved away when I was 8.  I have a lot of memories about Wichita Falls; Standing in the driveway while it snowed for the first time, Staring at the screaming cicadas on the Shumard Oak trees, Planting long thin black marigold seeds with little puffies on the end and getting a sunburn from the 110 degree day, Hanging in my tree in the back yard that seemed to be built for me and wondering at the big red dog named Blue.  I remember pulling violets from the grass and honeysuckle from the fence. I remember my first crush lived across the street and my first best friend did too, but on the other side. I remember a funny lady lived next door who used to babysit us.  The problem is I am not very good with sequence  of events, so I don't remember which

November Writing Prompt - Day 1 of 30

Five problems with social media  The first problem I see is that social media takes away from physical experiences. When we were kids in the 80s, you spent a lot of time outside and together. My first experience with spices actually growing  outside was with pepper. My friend Krissy's mom had little short plants with little seeds on them, she said they were black pepper plants. I had no idea up until then that you could do that. Mom and dad grew tomatoes and cabbage and things like that, but spices? I didn't know. I was fascinated.  Nor would I have seen it, then asked about it, had I not experienced it. If I had been on my phone with her I never would have had that experience. Nor the countless others, like riding bikes to a farm or learning to do my first cartwheel, or ice skating in my back yard or making up a soccer game where the beech trees were the goal posts or the winter of 1978, turning snow drifts into actual igloos! Another more malignant issue is that it is so very