I made these chocolate energy balls at my son’s school today as a healthy breakfast/snack alternative and the kids loved them. Some moms asked me for the recipe so here you have it. I used to make these chocolate date balls years ago. In fact, I remember sharing this recipe as part of a presentation…
.Body Image.
Dear Women’s Magazines, and Fashion Show Photographers, Congratulations on an excellent job promoting body confidence to women everywhere with your consistent covers featuring naked celebrities who are comfortable enough with their bodies to put their dumpy, veiny, stretch-mark-covered selves on full display. Of course, their cottage cheese thighs, waddle necks, and dangly, bat-wing arm fat…
Both Sides of a Breakup.
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine needed me to check on her husband, Michael, to make sure he had not killed himself. Earlier that evening, Michael (the ex-husband) had confessed to my friend that he had been entangled in a two-year-long sexual affair. His mistress was pregnant, and she was probably keeping…
.Love Letter to Myself.
Hello Lovely, Good morning. I am always with you and yet we seem to have lost touch. I understand that there are always things to do, places to go, opportunities to seize, dreams to realize and fires to fight but it is almost as if you have been avoiding me. Did we grow apart? I…
.Welcome Aboard Henry Airlines.
Welcome Aboard! Henry Airlines has some great news: You no longer need to wear a mask on your flight with us. Why? Because we are not scared anymore. The government has decided that measurements are no longer needed. No more lockdowns, no more quarantine after you arrive at your destination, no more testing. Everything is…
.Honest Work Email Responses.*
* I receive many emails on a daily basis and I sometimes wonder why certain phrases are used to start email exchanges. Here I will share some email highlights and how I interpreted or responded to them: “I hope this email finds you well” Did the email look for me? Glad, the email found me….
.Bits Of Wisdom.
If you were to die tomorrow, what one thing (or few things) would you be most disappointed that you weren’t able to complete, change, or achieve? Here is some of my wisdom: I don’t need praise or attention to have value. Cultivate twelve people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million…
.Back in the Days. *
*when things were so much better. Joel: “Mom, how was it back in the days when you were a kid?” When I was a kid, we were tough. We didn’t whine like kids today. Nobody had “peanut allergies” back then. Sometimes people’s throats just closed up for no reason, and we accepted it. We didn’t…
.Grandma.
Yesterday we buried my grandmother which was almost as bad as the day she died. Happiness and good cheer felt like distant memories. They felt like something I had lost when she died. But my grandma knew that even in the darkest times, we can still laugh; we can still smile. Those are the times…
.I Suck at Mathematics. *
*an article I dedicate to my brother Thomas Weiss, who I dearly love and look up to when it comes to anything numbers. And a lot more, too. Sometimes it feels like the things we learned in school are useless and nothing drives that point home more than the countless math rules that do not…