John Holton is our host for Writer’s Workshop. Here are this week’s prompts:
- Write a post inspired by the word professional.
- Write a post in exactly eight (8) sentences.
- What food do you have a love-hate relationship with?
- What’s some small thing you recently noticed?
- Tell us about a time you got a great deal on something.
- Tell us about a time you got really sick.
Originally I was going to say fried foods but I think dairy takes the cake as far as love-hate relationships go. Ice cream, fettuccine alfredo, milk, yogurt, butter, coffee with cream, milkshakes, allll the cheeses…I can’t think of a single dairy I don’t love but sadly, the dairy does not love me back.
Don’t get me wrong, it tastes delicious. Heavenly. Life changing even.
But it turns out dairy is a fickle mistress. At least for me.
I don’t remember having issues when I was younger, and thank heavens for that because I highly doubt I would have been compliant with dietary restrictions. Sometime in my forties (I think) things started going sideways when I had too much. It was the biggest of the bummers.
Luckily it’s a sensitivity more than an allergy. A few substitutions like almond creamer for my coffee and cutting back on cow’s milk mostly fix things; then it became a matter of accepting that grabbing that Dairy Queen Blizzard was rolling the dice.
Sometimes it’s worth the price.
Riddle from the Middle 