Pondering the Essential Questions fo Life

What if when all is said and done the essential questions of life are: 

• How well did you know yourself ? 
• How much capacity did you have for loving yourself ? 
• And were you true to yourself ? 

Clients drag themselves into my office, exhausted and frustrated. They are imprisoned by stressful jobs and unending obligations. They hear their bodies complain with symptoms and disease, though they feel trapped and helpless wishing desperately for more time in the day so they could rest.

Joyfully Baking Sweet Potato Pecan Biscuits

I first realized that baking comforted me in the Fall of 1989, when I noticed the urge to bake daily after the upset of the Loma Prieta earthquake. While puttering around in familiarity of my warm kitchen, with flour in my hands and cinnamon in the air, all felt right in my world. I was a homemaker in those days, raising two sons with big appetites. So the bounty of my baking was shared and appreciated.