For years I have subscribed to The Monday Morning Memo put out by Roy Williams, The Wizard of Ads, http://www.mondaymorningmemo.com/.

Hold on. This article is going to take you around the world and back, but well worth the ride!

I’ve been putting out a weekly article for probably the last five or six years. In this little world, I love hearing back from subscribers. Any time I can provide inspiration, education and humor, I consider what I do a success.

Monday, a lady friend of mine took me out to the country to experience a Himalayan salt cave where there are supposed health benefits. I’m always game for a new adventure and leaving work a little early on a Monday.

My lifelong friend, Stephen, is an attorney in Memphis. He has a beautiful fifteen month old daughter. I am so happy his wife Melissa is not a lawyer. Does our country really need lawyers breeding with lawyers?

I am so glad all of this talk of the top one percent has died down some.

Reflecting on my years growing up in Memphis, I can truly say, “I led a charmed life.”

It’s impossible and detrimental to your catering profits to put all catering customers into one pile.

A snapshot is a moment frozen in time. When my daughter Jordyn and I put together a slide show for my parents’ 50^th anniversary party last year, we uncovered a bumper crop of pictures of me from birth to around five years old. After that, not so many.

I have a great friend who will spend $5,000 on a new handbag. Fine clothes and accessories are her “thing”. My thing was, is and always will be food. There have been a couple of times I’ve spent close to $800 on a dinner for two. If anyone can get me into French Laundry, I’d pop the money to go there.