Cold Day, Hot Oven

Sometimes I feel like the luckiest person in the world to be able to bake and cook at work and enjoy the aromas wafting up the stairs into my office. Today is one of those days.

“…You didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose—paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.”
– Anne Lamott,

Read more in Salon Magazine, October 2013