John Holton is our host for Writer’s Workshop. Here are this week’s prompts:

  1. Write a post inspired by the word professional.
  2. Write a post in exactly eight (8) sentences.
  3. What food do you have a love-hate relationship with?
  4. What’s some small thing you recently noticed?
  5. Tell us about a time you got a great deal on something.
  6. 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.

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