Sharing baked goods and memories with family and friends still makes my cheeks wet sometimes.

It was really the only time in my life I subsisted on frozen meals. I think when you cook for someone you love, it’s hard to cook when they’re not there anymore.

Months until I could even sit at the empty table. I very much agree with you.

Otherwise I think I’d still be subsisting on Stouffers.

I will confess to chocolate ice cream for breakfast.

Just me and my old boy now. When I cook a big meal, I send some over to my next door neighbors who are older than we are or take some to my sister who can hardy get around anymore, I still bake Christmas cookies and give them all away to the family and the neighbors on the street.

Cooking and baking gives me great pleasure and I hope I am able to do this for many more years and in the mean time, I want to spread the love.

to other projects, too. One's heart and mind has to be in the right place for a satisfactory result.

But baking particularly, because there's not a lot of room for error.

One thing I've mastered is having a positive frame of mind most of the time, so I rarely have the chance of starting a project in a negative frame of mind. In fact, I would go so far as to state I wouldn't start a new project unless I'm feeling good about it. That's how important outlook is.