How my journey began

In a nutshell, nothing made sense for me after 911

The before

It was a comfortable life on the hamster wheel. Family, job, mortgage. Rinse and repeat.

The continuing story

Once that cathartic event happened, I started using my computer for something more important than Free Cell, looking for reasons why the world worked (or didn't) the way it could have. I found the Zeitgeist series of films among other things and they radically shifted my consciousness, how I perceive events that are shaping a radically different future than the one I had imagined. I became less religious and more spiritual, less judgmental and more curious, less materialistic and more connected to the earth.

I was diagnosed with Graves, an autoimmune disease that attacked my thyroid and eyes. It was another wake-up call for me, and I eventually had to leave my job. With even more time to research new areas of interest, I studied permaculture and that is when my whole life plan changed.

A series of unfortunate events in the economic sector my husband and I had worked in derailed our plans, so we are in the middle of coming up with a new one. Watch this space for updates.

In the meantime, I am writing. I am not particularly good at it but apparently there is hope I can improve.

This cookbook is a project my daughter put me up to as she has become interested in the way I cook. It just made sense to put it all in one place for her, and anyone else who enjoys my recipes.

This blog will be getting into some other areas of interest for me; growing food in healthy soil and how to redesign man's footprint in the world. Not sure the latter has time to be pursued given how far along towards extinction we have traveled, but I was born a designer, so I am meant to keep doing it - until I can't.