I am up late after a hard day emotionally. When you teach, you can become invested in creating positive result for your students. Often, this becomes both a blessing and a curse. When the outcome is not what was anticipated, it can be such a let down. I am of the opinion that if you don't have this experience as a educator, that quite possibly, you may not be in the right profession, and/or you maybe burned out.
It only takes one bad educator to ruin, or almost ruin, a students educational options. Negative education impacts can create a downward spiral that some students never recover from totally. Just like bad parenting, there are often long-lasting effects, that may not ever be healed.
Too often, I bare witness to evidence that supports my theory. I can teach techniques and other hard skills successfully to a wide range of students, but the soft skills are much harder to teach when there is some emotional scaring present. In my current role, I continue to lose kids due to noncompliance to the behaviorals issues much much more often. Patterns that indicate that entry into the workforce will be exceedingly difficult, such as poor attendance, are evidence that early lessons in promptness, and other successful behaviors are missing.
This population is in need of a break, a benefactor, a hand up. Americans are quick to write someone off without too much of a wink. Negative behaviors are usually symptomatic of the underlying issues that are plaguing society. Poverty, violence, low esteem, abuse, untreated mental disease, are some of the issues that keep the downward cycle going.
I had to sit on this post for about two weeks as I was trying to get some perspective. I am of the mind that, how our kids are being shuffled along in school, it is criminal. I have worked with 45 year old people, who graduated high school, but only can read at a fourth grade level with math scores of third grade. It's insane and I have stepped up to be apart of the solution.
It is hard work that saps everything out of you, if you care about your students. finale
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Friday, March 2, 2018
As of Right Now
As of right now.... The people that bore me, raised me, live next to me, understand me, or at least are most likely to understand me, are not in the best possible place. I have seen us in the White House and the poor house. And from where I sit, we are up against it even more.
I have been spending my last year teaching 16-24 year old students begin careers in the industry. This work has consumed my time, mind, and energy. It is a big part of why I haven't been active on the blog. The stories these young people share about their lives can stop the hardest of hearts. The issues they need to overcome are higher than any mountain. There is nothing they have not seen or been through in their few years.
As of right now... I haven't been faithful to this blog or my broadcast, with good reason. We will be back on the air soon.
I hate being political but it seems as if a tangerine lead white house will result in loss instead of enrichment in neighborhoods of mixed and brown people. As of right now.... I know that struggle is real and getting realer every day.
I have been spending my last year teaching 16-24 year old students begin careers in the industry. This work has consumed my time, mind, and energy. It is a big part of why I haven't been active on the blog. The stories these young people share about their lives can stop the hardest of hearts. The issues they need to overcome are higher than any mountain. There is nothing they have not seen or been through in their few years.
As of right now... I haven't been faithful to this blog or my broadcast, with good reason. We will be back on the air soon.
I hate being political but it seems as if a tangerine lead white house will result in loss instead of enrichment in neighborhoods of mixed and brown people. As of right now.... I know that struggle is real and getting realer every day.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Don't Burn Bridges!
So yesterday was a great day at a food convention, getting my class off-campus is hard but often worth the effort. Let's add the fact that the students get to graze through the whole place, they love it.
As our day got underway, I ran into two chefs that I worked with in my last job. I loved catching up with them. They also were had a group of culinarian students with them.
I was sitting with a few of my students when my chefs walked by. Surprise! One of my kids had worked with one of my chefs before entering my program. Small world, right.
Lesson to be learned? You never know when or where you will run into people. Luckily, their meeting was a positive one. Be careful not to burn your bridges. Their meeting could have been a disaster.
The culinary world is big but not big. There's movement all the time, folks work in the industry for lots of temporary careers, waiting tables part-time while in college, for example. But those of us who have spent 30 years as a chef or something else, you get to know many key people in the local market. Those folks you don't know are just 3 degrees of separation from each other.
Younger folks don't really understand that type of connections before it has bitten them in the butt.
If you burn all of your bridges, you may find yourself living on an island, without a boat.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Parental Role Injustice For Next Generation
As a mother of three achieving teenagers, I have put into place a strategy that may give them a leg up in the coming years. This plan of mine isn't done just because I am a chef, but I have seen that there is a informational gap forming on many levels and types of education that our children are not receiving. I have seen this more readily now that I am a culinary educator of other's parents children.
It is no longer a pervasive standard of parental expectation that children are expected to participate in completing chores, household repairs, and cooking duties. This has established bad habits that won't be easily broken. I seldom here of the Saturday mornings filled with cleaning the house, Spring cleaning, yard work, or any other type of productive duties that a family should be doing together. It is our duty to send out into the world at large young adults who have the skills to survive. I never wanted to live in situations where my kids would drop off their laundry at my house for me to do, or having one that come and eat or pickup dinner from my house because you didn't learn these skills before moving out. And I don't want to have my adult kids return home to live rent free in my basement because they can't maintain themselves in the real world.
Do I expect any of the my kids at home to become a chef or work in my industry? No way. However, I want to see my kids having the ability to cook at home, not being dependent upon corporations to feed themselves, understand how to manage a successful household, paying bills, and raising their own children in a healthy environment. We often set our kids up for defeat, poor health, shorter life spans, and a inability to function. Those of us that do not develop our children's potentials are not the only ones that will suffer in the long-term. Our grand kids and our daughter or son-in-laws often have difficulties with a parent or mate that is ill equip to deal with the day to day of adulthood.
I am the perfect parent? Do I only eat a restrictive diet? Do I know everything about everything? NOT TRUE. But I believe that when you don't share your knowledge on any subject with your children, in a age appropriate manner, it is a cold meal of injustice you are serving up. We parents have been given a charge, these aren't just kids we are raising, but in fact, they are the next wave of leadership we are growing. We are charged with the duty of their safety, education, development, and identity, we have a huge responsibility. Almost everything that our kids grow up to be is in fact our fault, good or bad. Some people never grow up, they just become old children and others become anxiety ridden over achievers who never get the hang of intimate relationships. Yes we must take the blame as well as the credit.
School isn't were kids learn about adulthood, that happens in the home. Teachers can teach algebra or science, but it's isn't their job to raise your kids. Manners, respect, honor, and loyalty must be taught in abundance along with hard skills of paying bills, being a reliable employee, and being a fully actualized adult prepared to take a significant role in a family or their own.
Cooking your meals has many benefits. It is cheaper than restaurant food and it gives you control of what goes in your food. The savings and the versatility that cooking at home can bring is beneficial to your bottom line and your waistline. Fast food and processed foods are designed to be made as cheaply as possible while being highly addictive and while our younger folks cannot see any reason not to eat that way. Those of us who are a bit further down the road have begun to feel the effects of a American diet rich in empty calories and large amounts of fat. Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and a host of other aliments attributed to this eating style. Since the days of Jane Fonda workout, we have become more unhealthy while spending more and more money on diets, supplements, yoga pants, and health club membership that you don't use.
Not teaching your children some survival skills is not a good option. I know that you can do it faster and better, but they need to practice, so they will be able to do and teach it to their offspring. And do I need to mention the habit fosters a greater sense of responsibility? Creating a mess and not cleaning it up is telling them that they don't need to take ownership of what they have done and it also says 'don't worry, Mom will fix everything', While they are little it should be that way, but as they age, year after year, it becomes a very bad idea. Stop coddling yours so much that they have a stunted emotional growth.
Healthy eating starts with healthy cooking, eating at a regular schedule, and understanding the basics of nutrition. Do everything you can to equip them for the future instead of spoiling them in the presence. I see teenagers every day that have no idea why they think they don't like to eat this or that. My program is an exposure program in which they cook new dishes and eat food they may not have ever heard of before, giving a lot better toolbox of personal experience.
I have heard my students say things like 'I didn't know mashed potatoes didn't come in a box", "I always thought I didn't like coleslaw", "Chef, I really really liked the green beans." all of which I count as a victory!
I do know that giving something away that you don't posses isn't easy or nearly impossible but I want you encourage every parent, even the ones that don't know a lot about cooking. Grab the bull by the horns, and learn with your kids if necessary, and learn better habits. Live a healthier life while giving one to your next generation.
It is no longer a pervasive standard of parental expectation that children are expected to participate in completing chores, household repairs, and cooking duties. This has established bad habits that won't be easily broken. I seldom here of the Saturday mornings filled with cleaning the house, Spring cleaning, yard work, or any other type of productive duties that a family should be doing together. It is our duty to send out into the world at large young adults who have the skills to survive. I never wanted to live in situations where my kids would drop off their laundry at my house for me to do, or having one that come and eat or pickup dinner from my house because you didn't learn these skills before moving out. And I don't want to have my adult kids return home to live rent free in my basement because they can't maintain themselves in the real world.
Do I expect any of the my kids at home to become a chef or work in my industry? No way. However, I want to see my kids having the ability to cook at home, not being dependent upon corporations to feed themselves, understand how to manage a successful household, paying bills, and raising their own children in a healthy environment. We often set our kids up for defeat, poor health, shorter life spans, and a inability to function. Those of us that do not develop our children's potentials are not the only ones that will suffer in the long-term. Our grand kids and our daughter or son-in-laws often have difficulties with a parent or mate that is ill equip to deal with the day to day of adulthood.
I am the perfect parent? Do I only eat a restrictive diet? Do I know everything about everything? NOT TRUE. But I believe that when you don't share your knowledge on any subject with your children, in a age appropriate manner, it is a cold meal of injustice you are serving up. We parents have been given a charge, these aren't just kids we are raising, but in fact, they are the next wave of leadership we are growing. We are charged with the duty of their safety, education, development, and identity, we have a huge responsibility. Almost everything that our kids grow up to be is in fact our fault, good or bad. Some people never grow up, they just become old children and others become anxiety ridden over achievers who never get the hang of intimate relationships. Yes we must take the blame as well as the credit.
School isn't were kids learn about adulthood, that happens in the home. Teachers can teach algebra or science, but it's isn't their job to raise your kids. Manners, respect, honor, and loyalty must be taught in abundance along with hard skills of paying bills, being a reliable employee, and being a fully actualized adult prepared to take a significant role in a family or their own.
Cooking your meals has many benefits. It is cheaper than restaurant food and it gives you control of what goes in your food. The savings and the versatility that cooking at home can bring is beneficial to your bottom line and your waistline. Fast food and processed foods are designed to be made as cheaply as possible while being highly addictive and while our younger folks cannot see any reason not to eat that way. Those of us who are a bit further down the road have begun to feel the effects of a American diet rich in empty calories and large amounts of fat. Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and a host of other aliments attributed to this eating style. Since the days of Jane Fonda workout, we have become more unhealthy while spending more and more money on diets, supplements, yoga pants, and health club membership that you don't use.
Not teaching your children some survival skills is not a good option. I know that you can do it faster and better, but they need to practice, so they will be able to do and teach it to their offspring. And do I need to mention the habit fosters a greater sense of responsibility? Creating a mess and not cleaning it up is telling them that they don't need to take ownership of what they have done and it also says 'don't worry, Mom will fix everything', While they are little it should be that way, but as they age, year after year, it becomes a very bad idea. Stop coddling yours so much that they have a stunted emotional growth.
Healthy eating starts with healthy cooking, eating at a regular schedule, and understanding the basics of nutrition. Do everything you can to equip them for the future instead of spoiling them in the presence. I see teenagers every day that have no idea why they think they don't like to eat this or that. My program is an exposure program in which they cook new dishes and eat food they may not have ever heard of before, giving a lot better toolbox of personal experience.
I have heard my students say things like 'I didn't know mashed potatoes didn't come in a box", "I always thought I didn't like coleslaw", "Chef, I really really liked the green beans." all of which I count as a victory!
I do know that giving something away that you don't posses isn't easy or nearly impossible but I want you encourage every parent, even the ones that don't know a lot about cooking. Grab the bull by the horns, and learn with your kids if necessary, and learn better habits. Live a healthier life while giving one to your next generation.
Friday, October 7, 2016
Poverty, Education, and Food,
As I sit here reviewing the last couple of months, things that happened to me personally, and to many around me, it could be extremely easy to be angry, feel disenfranchised, and quickly point fingers at this or that aspect of politics, segregation, and a host of other human ills. Blame 'the Man', government, racism, the illuminati, the media, or this stat or that stat. I have my opinions on those subjects which very well will be put up for discussion.
At this point, I work within the Chicago Public School system, but I am not a Chicago Teacher's Union member or a CPS teacher. I am a chef instructor with Afterschool Matters. I love my job and I love the students that I teach. Monday is Columbus day and if CTU and CPS cannot come to an agreement, Tuesday morning, the teachers will walk out on strike. I support the teachers who have been working a long time without a contract, wage adjustment, decision on issues of healthcare, and a variety of other issues. I will not be braking the picket line, so come Tuesday morning I might not be able to earn my hourly pay as per usual.
For ill or for better, I decided as a mother to take my kids out of CPS. I moved my family to a neighboring suburban neighborhood with a very good school district. In order to do this, I agreed to pay a higher rent than I could get the same living situation within the city. It has been costly but the result of this mandate has yielded three students with differing, and I would debate it, better outcomes. As we couldn't afford to utilize the private school offerings within the city, we could do better just by moving outside of the district. We put them where they could be within diverse school population that offered opportunities that CPS could not offer. We did this before I began working within the system in which I was educated for many years.
A large percentage of the students that our organization serves, nearly 10,000 students, are living in lower economically performing families. These kids are impacted daily by the choices made in government and by the poverty they are experiencing. There are systematic issues of race, economy, and segregation at play here. This "urban", "uneducated", "criminal" population is not as it is defined.
The teacher's union has every right to ask for appropriate compensation. The areas that they teach in has every right to question edicts and results of policies that not only have them operating on uneven playing fields from their non-minority counterparts.
Did you know, if your family qualifies to receive supplemental nutritional support (food stamps) the maximum funding that you would be eligible to receive equals $3 per meal, per person, per day. $9 a day to eat? Can you work with that budget? So whenever I hear someone decry the ills of all these 'welfare leeches' ruining our country, I find myself puzzled. At the majority of elementary and high schools within the Chicago metropolitan, they have such low dietary budgets and tight numbers of food service workers within the schools, that the meals produced are very cheap, often unhealthy, and rely upon some of the worst options available to eat. Canned foods, high fat, high sodium, easiest to prepare and serve the students. Real foods are not in the better interest of the system and often are too expensive. How can any institution produce the next generation of thinkers and leaders if it is serving foods that do not improve the health of these children and sets them up to be accustom to eating substandard foods.
Almost anyone can quickly determine that if you serve substandard food to anyone chances are that their malnutrition can result in lower thinking ability, lower academic performance, some behavioral issues, and health issues. So why does this happen? Why are so many living is food deserts? Why is fast food so cheap but fresh fruit is not cheap?
Food is one of the universal items that everyone must consume, find, and prepare daily. I try to get my students to understand that once you begin to rely upon a corporation to feed you, you are in nutritional trouble. Corporations all have one goal, make money, year after year growth both in new exposure to untapped territories, and by finding ways to make the products quickly and as cheaply as possible.
In the good old days..... The new political rhetoric recycled yet again in America.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, sounds fancy to the unfamiliar, but the premise is at it's core is simply and yet to be discredited. Maslow theorized that when a person has their essential needs in unstable statuses, food, shelter, love, will not be able to care about philosophy or religion. Human motivation can become very base when our basic needs are not meet.
Poverty changes personal goals and can keep people from becoming the best version of themselves possible. Poverty can change people's motivation taking their waking hours from understanding geometry to hustling for money for clothes, shoes, food, transportation, and safe housing. Impoverish people often don't care about Non-GMO or organic foods, they see spending their dollars to bring home to most food for the money, mass instead of quality.
Poverty, education, and food can't truly be separated in this climate because those who suffer being born on the wrong side of the tracks, poorly born, will experience judgements from outsiders that marginalize them, label them, and attempt to push them out of the race for the best of things offered for consumption.
At this point, I work within the Chicago Public School system, but I am not a Chicago Teacher's Union member or a CPS teacher. I am a chef instructor with Afterschool Matters. I love my job and I love the students that I teach. Monday is Columbus day and if CTU and CPS cannot come to an agreement, Tuesday morning, the teachers will walk out on strike. I support the teachers who have been working a long time without a contract, wage adjustment, decision on issues of healthcare, and a variety of other issues. I will not be braking the picket line, so come Tuesday morning I might not be able to earn my hourly pay as per usual.
For ill or for better, I decided as a mother to take my kids out of CPS. I moved my family to a neighboring suburban neighborhood with a very good school district. In order to do this, I agreed to pay a higher rent than I could get the same living situation within the city. It has been costly but the result of this mandate has yielded three students with differing, and I would debate it, better outcomes. As we couldn't afford to utilize the private school offerings within the city, we could do better just by moving outside of the district. We put them where they could be within diverse school population that offered opportunities that CPS could not offer. We did this before I began working within the system in which I was educated for many years.
A large percentage of the students that our organization serves, nearly 10,000 students, are living in lower economically performing families. These kids are impacted daily by the choices made in government and by the poverty they are experiencing. There are systematic issues of race, economy, and segregation at play here. This "urban", "uneducated", "criminal" population is not as it is defined.
The teacher's union has every right to ask for appropriate compensation. The areas that they teach in has every right to question edicts and results of policies that not only have them operating on uneven playing fields from their non-minority counterparts.
Did you know, if your family qualifies to receive supplemental nutritional support (food stamps) the maximum funding that you would be eligible to receive equals $3 per meal, per person, per day. $9 a day to eat? Can you work with that budget? So whenever I hear someone decry the ills of all these 'welfare leeches' ruining our country, I find myself puzzled. At the majority of elementary and high schools within the Chicago metropolitan, they have such low dietary budgets and tight numbers of food service workers within the schools, that the meals produced are very cheap, often unhealthy, and rely upon some of the worst options available to eat. Canned foods, high fat, high sodium, easiest to prepare and serve the students. Real foods are not in the better interest of the system and often are too expensive. How can any institution produce the next generation of thinkers and leaders if it is serving foods that do not improve the health of these children and sets them up to be accustom to eating substandard foods.
Almost anyone can quickly determine that if you serve substandard food to anyone chances are that their malnutrition can result in lower thinking ability, lower academic performance, some behavioral issues, and health issues. So why does this happen? Why are so many living is food deserts? Why is fast food so cheap but fresh fruit is not cheap?
Food is one of the universal items that everyone must consume, find, and prepare daily. I try to get my students to understand that once you begin to rely upon a corporation to feed you, you are in nutritional trouble. Corporations all have one goal, make money, year after year growth both in new exposure to untapped territories, and by finding ways to make the products quickly and as cheaply as possible.
In the good old days..... The new political rhetoric recycled yet again in America.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, sounds fancy to the unfamiliar, but the premise is at it's core is simply and yet to be discredited. Maslow theorized that when a person has their essential needs in unstable statuses, food, shelter, love, will not be able to care about philosophy or religion. Human motivation can become very base when our basic needs are not meet.
Poverty changes personal goals and can keep people from becoming the best version of themselves possible. Poverty can change people's motivation taking their waking hours from understanding geometry to hustling for money for clothes, shoes, food, transportation, and safe housing. Impoverish people often don't care about Non-GMO or organic foods, they see spending their dollars to bring home to most food for the money, mass instead of quality.
Poverty, education, and food can't truly be separated in this climate because those who suffer being born on the wrong side of the tracks, poorly born, will experience judgements from outsiders that marginalize them, label them, and attempt to push them out of the race for the best of things offered for consumption.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
The best bits of you....
There are some activities that require your all, to get lay it out on the field, the court, the classroom.... culinary is no different. Many good home cooks contemplate entry into professional cooking and many do very well, but the casual observers seldom have no clue what it takes to climb to the upper strata.
Take my career as example, I started in 1988, before completing my Associate degree in food service production. I have work for several big name companies in Chicago, to various levels of successful tenor. There have always been a limit on how much I could sacrifice for the job, especially after becoming a parent.
I have pulled 18 to 20 hour work shifts for short periods of time, gladly, but consistent grinding like that can make the best of us crumble like blue cheese. In some ways, it can be easier for our guys than the finest of ladies. Either having no real life outside of the job or having a very supportive partner tends to be the only way to soar in our industries.
Now that that's said, there are lots of industry jobs that are much less demanding, but those will seldom to never get your own telephone show.
I worked retail food stores as a bakery department manager just to have stable hours. It was what I needed with one child in elementary school, one in daycare, and pregnant.
I took opportunities to stay home with my children and so did the hubby. Am I saying that you can't have it all? Not entirely... some are blessed with a great support system but not many of working chefs have one.
Working on your feet, wearing out joints, for such long hours, leads us to be close knit with are comrades in arms. We hang out together, drink together, work together and very often sleep together. It ends up that you don't have friends in the outside world, mainly because you are not in the real world.
When people want to sit down and eat, we are grinding, when the party is in full swing, we are humping hard and when we sleep, everyone else is working. Shadow people who make every day and every night magical for everyone else. If we do our jobs correctly, you can easily overlook us. We strive to provide faultless service with a stress free atmospheres.
There's a lot of work options in my industry from critic to lunchroom service, and a thousand in between. Make wise choices for we never get second chances to live it all over again. What worked for me may have nothing in common to yours. And that's okay.
Guard your heart and treat your body well.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Pain's blessing
Okay so I have not been updating much lately, not here or on the podcast. I can tell you all the pain, illness, changes, decisions, roadblocks, and set backs that separated me from this effort and audience but to what end? What would it change?
Pain is something that all of have learned to shrink from quickly, the stove is hot. It's in our DNA to have self preservation. This involuntary reaction is designed to protect us and sustain life. However, the running away, or shrinking away, is not productive. We often need to sit still in the place of pain to understand what purpose does it serve to feel this. Apply scientific method that will be your path to understanding it. What makes a person 'bad' or 'good', it's how they deal with their pain. Hurt people hurt people. The child that grew up poor economically, usually has one of two reactions to that in adulthood. One, they become greedy about acquiring stuff, they often overindulge themselves when spending, even if that action selfishly takes away from supplying the needs of their spouses and children. Or these people can learn that material things don't satisfy a gap in their emotional well being. They learn that it isn't stuff that makes someone feel a sense of lacking or not, it is in fact, the withholding of love and attention that creates this emotion.
My medical condition makes me feel physical pain often, well daily. Dealing with it, raising a family, teaching teenagers, being a spouse, a friend, a relative, and all other roles I am asked to be, have never been easy. I have a lot of physical pain but it doesn't even get in the ring with my emotional pain, it's in the wrong weight class to box with it. Being a chef, you must overcome much of your fear of physical pain. Cuts, burns, falls, having to lift heavy weight, work on your feet from 8, 12, 18, or 20 hours a day, with back to back days, a lack of good sleep, a constant level of noise, action, and planning, are all a part and parcel of our work. And all this before your customers interact with you making a complicated day into a possible nightmare.... But we wouldn't have it any other way. We chefs are action addicts in our own way, no different that a skydiver, totally hooked on the rush.
I still must strive and continue, both here and in real life. I will pull myself back to where I was breaking ground on some of my long list of productive action. It takes more than one monkey to stop this show.
Thanks. Stay tuned.
Pain is something that all of have learned to shrink from quickly, the stove is hot. It's in our DNA to have self preservation. This involuntary reaction is designed to protect us and sustain life. However, the running away, or shrinking away, is not productive. We often need to sit still in the place of pain to understand what purpose does it serve to feel this. Apply scientific method that will be your path to understanding it. What makes a person 'bad' or 'good', it's how they deal with their pain. Hurt people hurt people. The child that grew up poor economically, usually has one of two reactions to that in adulthood. One, they become greedy about acquiring stuff, they often overindulge themselves when spending, even if that action selfishly takes away from supplying the needs of their spouses and children. Or these people can learn that material things don't satisfy a gap in their emotional well being. They learn that it isn't stuff that makes someone feel a sense of lacking or not, it is in fact, the withholding of love and attention that creates this emotion.
My medical condition makes me feel physical pain often, well daily. Dealing with it, raising a family, teaching teenagers, being a spouse, a friend, a relative, and all other roles I am asked to be, have never been easy. I have a lot of physical pain but it doesn't even get in the ring with my emotional pain, it's in the wrong weight class to box with it. Being a chef, you must overcome much of your fear of physical pain. Cuts, burns, falls, having to lift heavy weight, work on your feet from 8, 12, 18, or 20 hours a day, with back to back days, a lack of good sleep, a constant level of noise, action, and planning, are all a part and parcel of our work. And all this before your customers interact with you making a complicated day into a possible nightmare.... But we wouldn't have it any other way. We chefs are action addicts in our own way, no different that a skydiver, totally hooked on the rush.
I still must strive and continue, both here and in real life. I will pull myself back to where I was breaking ground on some of my long list of productive action. It takes more than one monkey to stop this show.
Thanks. Stay tuned.
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