"You are not going to major in philosophy!" My dad declared. "It would be a useless degree in the real world."

I had found a subject matter that rocked my boat, but the minute I shared my desire to be a Philosophy major with my authoritarian father, he shot the idea down.

"It's not going to happen."

There I was trying to figure out my way in a confusing world and one of the few subjects that touched me on the deepest level was unacceptable to the bill payer.

And thirty years later, I still have that fire in my heart for the ancient philosophical discourses that I was first introduced to in an Introductory college Philosophy course.

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When we grow up time seems to fly.

Where does the day go? Where does the month go ? Where or where does the year go?

One day we look back and it's not the days or the weeks or the months or the years... but it's the decades gone that befuddles us.

Did we use our decades in ways that delight us or did we spill our time in ways that shed deep, dark rays of disappointment through our inner most soul.

Perhaps it is time to take stock, pull out the sheaths of inventory and the ink of honesty.

"What if" ... we ask ourselves. What if our chosen path had been different? Our choices become our life. A right choice ... will it lead to inner delight and the wrong choice... will it lead to inner disappointment?

Or do all our combined choices, the good and the bad... all wash clean in the washing machine of life?

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As a business owner, I'm always interested in knowing about effective low cost ways to keep my name in front of my customers.

Calendars, notepads, pay per click google ads, radio advertising, newspaper ads, regional glossy magazines, promotional pens... I've tried my fair share.

Any number of combinations are likely to work. The important thing to remember is that you should design a strategy that you will truly implement. There is nothing worse than finding a drawer or box full of expired calendars that obviously never got distributed! Ouch!

Plan you work THEN WORK YOUR PLAN! And like anything that is strategically implemented day after day- you will see RESULTS!

With autumn quickly approaching, my tastes turn to harvest foods, roasted meats and rich and deeply nurturing flavors.


As I write this a chicken roasts in the oven, sending delicious drifts of aroma through the building.

On the top shelf of the oven, a small pan of Minnesota Wild Rice bubbles away.

Lunch today will be a Wild Rice Salad with Chicken, Diced Apple, Mandarin Oranges and Pecans.

Yum! Diet?

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Let's weigh in on cream cheese. Everyone knows that to make a dish lighter we can substitute fat-free cream cheese for the full-fat variety.

But is it worth it? Should we do it? Should we sacrifice the exquisite flavor of a special dish by using substitutions?

Personally, I do not like the taste of most fat-free ingredients, with cream cheese being right at the top of the list.

On the other hand, whenever I buy something such as cool whip or other non-dairy whipped toppings, I always reach for the fat-free. Same with ice cream and frozen yogurt... I love the fat free variety.

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