Rawhide The Wonder Horse & The Butter Chicken Lady

Rawhide the Wonder Horse has claimed a place in my living room.  I’m hoping this location is temporary, and I’m looking forward to the creation of a basement play space, but Rawhide is certainly evoking memories and provoking thought.  We acquired him almost 40 years ago, and he was a favorite even then. When we moved back to Toledo in 1978, we arrived before the moving truck and two-and-a-half year old Johanna was practically glued to the window watching for him in her eagerness.  Now it’s Aloisa’s turn.

On Black Friday, I succumbed to the Instant Pot craze.  It’s fun, and recently I bought a cookbook to expand my repertoire of suitable recipes.  The author, Urvashi Pitre, is a “trained scientist”and also “an entrepreneur-and the founder of …a global marketing agency.” Not surprisingly, Pitre says she never expected to be known as “the butter chicken lady.”  If her butter chicken recipe is as good as her tens of thousands of FB followers say, maybe it’s a greater accomplishment than her previous business success.  I’ll decide tomorrow when I make it for John’s birthday dinner.

It’s hard for any of us to know what changes are coming.  I certainly have often been surprised by what I’ve found myself doing in a succession of marginally-related careers since I came to Toledo as a junior high math teacher.  Someone recently asked if I was considering “coming out of retirement” to do something I am passionate about.  That’s not how it works for me.  I don’t do something because I’m passionate about it.  I become passionate about what I do.

After two decades of a no kids at home and almost that long of no pets, I certainly didn’t expected to be a person who has a horse in the living room.  I can’t wait to see what’s next.