Recently semi-retired. I am now able to indulge myself with all the time I need doing the things I love. I am very happy spending time at the Kitchen Island my son helped me build. It is one of a kind and it's one of the ways I "love my family with my hands and creativity" while I work up some tasty foods. I love baking up pretty goodies to share with family and friends. I am also an avid collector of Poultry recipes and this helps to keep my husband and me healthy. I was about 12 years old when my father suggested to my mother that she teach me to cook and she replied, "she can already out-cook me". She's been gone a few years now and nothing makes me feel closer to her than when I am cooking up one of her recipes and remembering our kitchen times together. A family get together wouldn't be complete unless I brought my homemade bread. It is real comfort food, rich tasting and dense. What's left makes the best toast the next morning. Yum! One of the first meals I cooked for my new daughter-in-law was a very expensive prime rib roast. I completely zoned out on that one. My oven was new and I went strictly by the recipe and didn't use a thermometer and needless to say, the roast came out very, very rare. Unfortunately, my new daughter-in-law and my husband are both "well done" folks. Glad to say, I was forgiven and she is one of my best friends and the best present my son ever gave me.