Flowers For Algernon Inspiration

Flowers for Algernon

Inspiration Nation is a two blog project. I designed it that way so that the actual recipes would be easily accessible, and separate from my ramblings and occasional run-on sentences. So if you are looking for a recipe mentioned in one of the blog posts, click on the "Find the Recipes" link just below this to the left, look for the recipe blog post with the same date, and you will find the recipe. I have to be honest with myself - at 58, I don't have the energy I had even 20 years ago, when I graduated law school.  Before law school, I had spent most of a year taking an intensive paralegal course at Long Island University, while working two jobs.  Before that, I had worked, going to both graduate school and the College of Insurance, while commuting long hours on the train.  While I was in law school, I worked full time, commuting to Manhattan from Ronkonkoma.  It is true that I was in the part time program at Touro - although at 11 1/2 credits, I was coming awfully close to full time, and then I was also an active member of the Moot Court Board.  So I look back at those days, working in Manhattan during the week, working for the caterer on the weekend, putting in sometimes as much as 80 hours not counting commuting, and I shake my head in amazement.  I don't know how I did it, and I sure couldn't do it now. I get tired easily, and sometimes I feel fragile, while other times I feel I could take up running.  When I can't fall asleep until 4:00 in the morning, and then have to drag myself out of bed to get the office or court, I let myself dream about the day I can skip the dragging part and just go back to sleep.  Have a leisurely cup of coffee on the back patio, knit to my heart's content, work my way through all the recipes in Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies .  Do more traveling, see the world, see the rest of the United States. Except I have a fear that is far greater than my desire to return to Italy or finally see Alaska, much greater than my frustration with insomnia, or my occasional exhaustion after a grueling trial.  I am afraid, deathly afraid, of becoming senile, of developing Alzheimer's or some other age-related dementia.  I am not worried about early onset Alzheimer's, but I do come from a family of long lifers, and the longer one lives, the more likely one will become senile.

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