Hello Fellow Travelers!
It was New Year's Eve and I was tackling another weighty cancer-related topic (This week: Headache Pain: Ignore it and Hope it goes Away or Take an Aleve Ignore it and then Hope it Disappears!) and then this was delivered by a Fed-Ex dude: Macaroons. And not just any macaroons either, But the most perfect assortment of "macaroons" ever assembled! A macaroon, by definition, consists of egg whites colored and flavored with fillings. These SoCal macs are assembled and packaged with such painstaking care they arrive at their ultimate destination perfect, in a perfect pink box with a ribbon and tissue paper.
What does any of this have to do with brain cancer you ask? Good question! Besides having a newfound appreciation for brown sugar and all things vanilla my tastes have stayed sharp and more defined than ever. During the surgery in 2011, something happened that totally reversed my palate
but I'm as picky as I always was! Pickier, even If eating is too difficult, I just don't. Beating cancer out of my body (Thank you, neurosurgeon HA!) has taught me many lessons. Chief among them? Food is a tiresome, (never done) process. Eat only what you want. As much as you want when you want. Never "want". I'm shocked by my new-to-me desire for sweets! Almost as surprising to me is my complete confidence that this will "all work out" because there is really only one question that's relevant. Say it with me: "Is it cancer? No? Then who cares?"
You might as well scarf perfect macaroons or Swedish Ginger Cookies or Funyuns (yuk!) or whatever you're into. I, myself appreciate high quality bakery items! We're all juggling chainsaws,we're all fighting "the good fight", whatever that means, and eventually time will outlast all of us, so enjoy!
It was New Year's Eve and I was tackling another weighty cancer-related topic (This week: Headache Pain: Ignore it and Hope it goes Away or Take an Aleve Ignore it and then Hope it Disappears!) and then this was delivered by a Fed-Ex dude: Macaroons. And not just any macaroons either, But the most perfect assortment of "macaroons" ever assembled! A macaroon, by definition, consists of egg whites colored and flavored with fillings. These SoCal macs are assembled and packaged with such painstaking care they arrive at their ultimate destination perfect, in a perfect pink box with a ribbon and tissue paper.
What does any of this have to do with brain cancer you ask? Good question! Besides having a newfound appreciation for brown sugar and all things vanilla my tastes have stayed sharp and more defined than ever. During the surgery in 2011, something happened that totally reversed my palate
but I'm as picky as I always was! Pickier, even If eating is too difficult, I just don't. Beating cancer out of my body (Thank you, neurosurgeon HA!) has taught me many lessons. Chief among them? Food is a tiresome, (never done) process. Eat only what you want. As much as you want when you want. Never "want". I'm shocked by my new-to-me desire for sweets! Almost as surprising to me is my complete confidence that this will "all work out" because there is really only one question that's relevant. Say it with me: "Is it cancer? No? Then who cares?"
You might as well scarf perfect macaroons or Swedish Ginger Cookies or Funyuns (yuk!) or whatever you're into. I, myself appreciate high quality bakery items! We're all juggling chainsaws,we're all fighting "the good fight", whatever that means, and eventually time will outlast all of us, so enjoy!
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