Brunch must have been invented by a female. When we lived on the East Coast, brunch was a late, Sunday breakfast at home. It was an edible excuse for me to sleep more and cook less.

On the West Coast brunch is big business. On the West Coast you don’t have bunch, you DO brunch. On the West Coast you do brunch on Saturday or Sunday.

There are two kinds of brunch - menu and buffet. If it’s my choice, it means my birthday is on a weekend.

Okay Me…today is Monday and I am definitely going to lose this last 15 pounds! This weight has been driving me nuts for years. I know I start a diet every Monday, but this Monday is different. This is the one that I am really going to stick to because, frankly, I am sick of seeing my fat self in the mirror.

“I would rather pay your board than feed you”. This was one of my father’s ‘famous’ quotes about me and my eating habits. He had several others, but the one that really stuck was his constant reminder that “boy, you’re like a billy goat, you’ll eat anything”. Somewhere along the line, this saying evolved into my nickname of ‘goat’, that I carried with me through most of my childhood. Looking back on it, his characterization seemed quite appropriate especially in light of his trying to feed five children on a working man’s wages when one ate like five himself. I was reminded of this by my brother recently, as this lead into a rather lengthy discussion of the various names we had back during our childhood days. The odd thing is how many of them still seem appropriate today!