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.

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.

As I get older, I am quickly realizing why people choose to winter in Florida. Though we have larger brains, birds are much smarter. They have enough sense to get out of the cold.

This past Monday night was a big night for our family. Yet again, the University of Alabama won the National Championship! Roll Tide!!!

Yesterday I was conducting a catering consultation for a prospective client. I make about four of these sessions available each week for restaurant owners serious about growing their catering business. At no cost, I evaluate their catering menu, websites and give a handful of low cost, easily implementable ideas to grow catering sales.

Having been born and raised in Morocco, my father didn’t grow up with the same sports as my friends’ parents. There was no father son learning, playing or watching football, basketball or baseball. Though I wasn’t the last one picked on the playground, I was definitely in the bottom three.