Personal Chef

You're busy and I love to cook.

If you are like me, at times of my life, eating out or buying processed foods is a way of life.

My family did not get the meals they desired or needed for staying healthy.

Our lifestyles don't always allow for doing many of the things we know we could do, including making healthy meals for the family table.

Whether you want an intimate meal, something that pampers you or daily domestic meals, this service can accommodate you.

Moving Forward

Time to accept the changes that have been happening with each breath from the moment of my divorce. I have been good at accepting most of the changes life has provided. I never was very good at playing the "victim" role and only occasionally allowed myself a pity party. In the recent years I lost a father and an elderly friend to death. I lost my husband to divorce, my children to maturity and their need to move away and several beloved family pets. I suppose I lost some aquaintances because of the new "single" status but I hadn't felt that as deeply as some might imagine. It is now the luxuries I miss. I miss being able to contribute to local organizations I had been able to faithfully support. I miss generously supporting my church, local functions, birthday and graduation notices. I want to afford the gift of spontaneity in responding to needs and wants of my children, friends, neighbors and community.

Like many in this nation and world, I miss feeling confident about supporting myself financially. With minimal work experience outside motherhood and marriage, I often feel inadequate. The skills I have seem insufficient to answer most job postings and while I pursue work that will eventually provide passive income, I so desire to regain the ability to pay basic expenses and regain the generous spirit and means to follow through.

At a recent function with lady friends from my past life, I realized that while they wanted to talk about luxuries....travel, retirement and projects... I wanted to talk about what I do (my business venture) and how it might be of service to them. The worlds didn't seem to connect that night. I realize I fit in better at business networking events and not future black tie events. My world has changed, sometimes slow enough to "cook the frog" and at other times with lightening clarity. I still love my past-life friends. They may still like me, yet I didn't feel like I belonged and that made me sad and wise at the same time.

Giving a 30-60 or 90 second commercial at network events is always a challenge for me. Not because I don't know what to say but because I want to share so much. Today I followed the lead of last weeks informercial by the portable toilet business. He talked about how his toilets were in demand because they we cleaner than others and didn't smell. So he talked about enzymes. This week I talked about enzymes too, only the kind that are in, or were in, our foods. The kind of enzymes that help us break down and digest food for the nutrients found, or were found, within those knife and fork foods. Enzymes are vital to good health and too many of us are not getting enough from our raw foods because we are not eating anything raw. Without the food source, the body has to supply all the needs and it cannot keep up. When it can't keep up, the body breaks down, the functions don't function so well and the energy we need to be vital is not being produced. Do You get it. Your diet is crucial to your good health. When you get tired of being sick and weak. When you get tired of having friends and family go through cancer treatments and when you get fed up with high health care costs, you might consider what you can do to help yourself by changing your foods to a healthier form. The tone of this post might seem angry but it is just my frustration with how slowly this connection between good health and quality food is being recognized. Pharmaceuticals are not going to cure any of what ails you. It is a bandage. Nutrients that your body recognizes and was designed to process efficiently are what will get you on the road to vital health and longevity. Knife and fork foods might not be the best answer either. Consider where those foods were created, processed and treated. Consider the purity and nutrient density of the foods you choose and the water you drink. More later....

The Habit of Blogging

While many are finding the discipline of journaling online in a blog very natural, as can be seen from my entries, this method of communicating is not natural to me, yet. I have many things to say but don't always get them out of my head and into readable formats. So to bring people up to date, I began my term as president of the Pueblo Business Women's Network in June. This organization is 25 years old and still going strong. Each year brings the same challenges that other organizations face, like where to recruit new members, what programs to present to add value and hold interest and what's for lunch. Some of the answers to these questions still elude me but the board is open to hearing from members and interested businesses about what they seek in a networking group and what they want to learn in educational presentations. We are getting back to basics and hope there are others out there that want to join us each month to meet business owners like themselves who understand relationship networking.