Food/Fuel
It's Thursday! Ages ago, when I was in Pastry School I had class with a bartender who worked in this tiny place on Capital in Seattle. Super nice guy, can't remember his name, but he always described Thursdays as "Baby Friday" and it's SO, TRUE. It's like Christmas Eve if you have weekends off (I did at the time). So there's that undercurrent of energy that builds as the day goes on and by day's end you're all "Phew, one more day to go. I can DO this!" And then, apparen

Failure as Fortune
Careful how you tell someone you want them to fail. Who wants that? Who even says that to someone else?! Well, I’m going to be figuring out how to say this and have the failure conversation more with others. Before the last lift of my last Powerlifting meet my husband told me he wanted me to fail but, quickly followed those words up with the explanation that I had never really failed at lifting and thus, had yet to experience the work of coming back from failing. Well, I fa