Well, you know I have to write something about the Super Bowl. I had quite a few posts last season since the Broncos WON, and I haven’t been very involved this year once we sort of dropped off the map. (Next year will be different! I know it!)
Anyway, I was a total ANTI TOM BRADY person. I DON’T LIKE HIM AT ALL. So I was sitting there, totally enjoying his discomfiture, for the first three quarters. But I did think,’Hey, it can’t be this easy. The Patriots aren’t pushovers, whatever else I might think of them.’ And I wondered what was going on in Tom Brady’s mind. Much as I DISLIKE him, he is a master strategist and he stays cool. There he was, throwing incomplete passes all over the place and that interception that led to an 80+-yard touchdown by the Falcons, and he just kept it together. (My
The source of this quotation may be Outward Bound, the program that helps people gain confidence through adventure. Or someone named Patricia Ryan Madison, a leading teacher in improvisational theater. Or Gretchen Rubin’s mother. Whoever! I will quote my friend Cecelia here again, who said about a youth group trip to the Six Flags amusement park during the heat and humidity of a Virginia summer, “No one can make me miserable.”
I have a few cooking blogs to which I subscribe, 
That Sugar Film, 2015, written and directed by Damon Gameau, who also stars. Streaming is available for free through 
that procrastination is a bad idea.
I write periodically about the dangers of sugar consumption and my own efforts to control if not banish this substance from my life. Right now I’m working on re-doing my recipes over on the hospitality blog, and for every dessert I’m including information on how many grams of sugar each serving contains. The typical amount is around 25 grams, or about 6 teaspoons, which, coincidentally, is the limit given by most researchers for the daily maximum we should have for added sugar.
This is becoming an almost-weekly tradition when I take an idea from the Gretchen Rubin/Liz Craft podcast, expand on it, and apply it to my own life. So this was 
I wrote earlier this week about how self-knowledge can add to our happiness because we can quit trying to make ourselves do things that we don’t enjoy and aren’t any good at. I mentioned the Enneagram test as one that I’d taken but which gave me some rather confusing results. So I just re-took it, answering some of the questions differently and I think more accurately. Some of them are difficult for me, as either neither or both of the choices seem right. (Read that sentence three times.) One in particular gave me pause, as it was given the choice between a tendency to be sociable and friendly and being solitary and self-sufficient. 