I’ve worked so furiously these last 5 years, setting up Wandering Cooks, I’ve forgotten how to have fun outside of work. More than that, I’ve made moral judgements about fun. Shouldn’t we all just forget about fun for fun’s sake? I mean, should fun even exist outside this work cascade of my creation? If work engulfs life – ingests it … Read More >>
Every one in business faces her own pains. A marathon slog or a downhill plummet or a confidence hole. Many are doing these feats of will with the tears streaming down their cheeks. Some with family watching on, waiting to receive what they signed up for. Their husband. Their mother. Their bread winner. All these people are heroes in waiting. … Read More >>
Do I write too many depressing blog posts? Perhaps that depends on where you currently stand on the weaving, forking path of food business. Are you right at the start of your journey? looking down a road curving out of sight, presenting itself as the perfect adventure. Still shaded by comforting visions in dappled light, your energy still endlessly refuelled … Read More >>
At the warehouse, the fan keeps tripping out. Another trolley breaks its wheel. A booking needs changing, a delivery signing, doors saving, ferments finishing, menus updating… There’s a trillion undone tasks roaming the warehouse like this: down the corridor, passed the office and through the green canopies, calling out with every shifting breeze for someone to find them, help them. … Read More >>
The feelings that circle when your business is failing – not someone else’s but yours – are almost impossible to release into the public. Failure fuels embarrassment, humiliation, exhausting hindsight and regret. People feel that others judgement will amplify all of these feelings, and that judgement and pity, rather than true empathy, will echo back. But if we’re all willing to … Read More >>
In my darkest moments, I feel the overwhelming presence of Super Parent. She knows who she is. She’s worked a full day (sometimes more than full let’s face it) then flies home to save spirits in her domestic realm. She’s always at the ready to enrich her children’s minds with after school activities, frolics in clover and a sit down … Read More >>
Pulling Wandering Cooks out of its financial nose dive and into viability has been the most stressful experience of my life. There’s been other transforming events to be sure. Finishing a PhD, most demanding on my brain muscles; becoming a mother, most challenging to my independence; wearing a back brace, most teaching of humility; losing my brother to suicide, most … Read More >>
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