WOW! Time sure does fly! I had the intention of starting this blog at the beginning of January so that I could send wishes that everyone had had some happy holidays (Chanukkah, Christmas and Yule) and then of course a Happy Julian calendar New Year, but it wasn’t to be. Call it busy, lazy, whatever you want, it just didn’t happen.

     A couple of things have happened as of late, to make me re-evaluate my time and life and make it more meaningful.  First of all, I’ve been reading a book by Seneca (a roman philosopher) called “On the Shortness of Life-Life is Long if You Know How To Use It”; actually, I think it’s more of an essay from a collection of books called Great Ideas.  He says: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.  Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.  But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.  So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”  Secondly, I turned 42 years old last month. That’s mid-life for most and I realized that I’m not incredibly healthy, I have lots of unfinished projects, dreams, and goals and I spend more time thinking that I need to do something about it than actually doing it. So, I’ve decided to not waste so much of my life and try to fill it up with more meaningful things. I’ll do it in baby steps, of course, or else I might fall off the wagon and go to bed at night wondering where my day went and what I did today, which is a question I seem to ask myself a lot these days.

     This is my second attempt at a blog and hopefully this one will be more successful.  We'll post some pics and videos, let you know what's happening in our lives and maybe even post a few recipes. In any case, we hope you enjoy it.  Let us know what you think.  

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