The road to culinary mastery didn’t begin with dreams of Michelin stars and Zagat ratings. My path was born of necessity on the desolate highway of hunger and emptiness. Hunger chased me down like a rabid animal, showing the initial…
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The quiet aloneness of early morning belongs to me. I own this time in my day, in my life. Oh that my entirety could exist in this rarified air, free from the imposition of anyone or anything uninvited. Awakening, my…
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The warm an inviting aromas of Hash brown Casserole, cinnamon rolls, and strong hot coffee permeated the morning stillness, and gave a sense of how things ought to be on a cold winter’s morning. Those wonderful smells belied the fact…
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As I sat in the waiting area of Vanderbilt Oncology Center, my thoughts wandered back to my pilgrimage to the Mayo Clinic several years ago. This morning I had the opportunity to help a friend who had to have a…
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The journey to wholeness has traveled down the long road of rejection, and circled the mountain of fear and brokenness. Like the Israelites whose journey became an endless travail, so too has been my journey to discover that I am…
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