Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I have a roof over my head, food in my tummy (and my family's), and money in the bank. [link] (satire) Posted by bondwooley on December 21, 2009 at 11:31 am | permalink | Reply being underemployed is a bummer, but it's all relative. I am blessed compared to the majority of the planet's population.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 13, 2010

The Myth of Stress: Where Stress Really Comes from and How to Live a Happier and Healthier Life, by Andrew Bernstein This book arrived in the mail during the time that the farmer was having to adjust very fast from his bachelor life to toys underfoot, arguments over food at dinner, and a bedtime that always takes too long.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 20, 2010

Like how you don't waste food on the farm. Now I'm a city girl, and I confess I haven't completely come to terms with my farm roots. But your writing, the way you describe the farm and the farmer is so heartwarming. And wearing boots. Or teaching the boys to duck under the electric fence.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Whole Foods website has a lot of good vegetarian recipes as well. Homemade black bean burgers (black beans, chopped portabello and other mushrooms, smoke sauce, and some onions or green peppers with egg to bind it all) is one of my favorites.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 14, 2010

In a way, I saw women "fulfilling" themselves physically with food because they were missing something in their careers and their lives. It gives you some food for thought. It makes sense. They spend all their time and energy looking after others so they have nothing left for themselves. Point number three hit me the hardest.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

The most important thing for a college student is to get out of the college bubble from their first year and try different settings where they might work or volunteer in a multigenerational environment (so not retail and food service). If I did that I would have had a job now.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First of all, you’re not paying for your own food, so you should eat really good, healthy food, which is always more expensive than junk food. Got food poisoning on another. During the day you might not have the time or the access to healthy food. Eat really well. 1, 2, 4, and 5 will now be my focus.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Some food for thought: Why James Chatrand wears women's underpants Talks about the effect of gender on payrate. At any rate, knowledge is just one factor in negotiations. If you're not getting as many offers, you would not be able to negotiate as high, and therefore it's harder to get paid fairly.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 5, 2010

Posted by Rich Kazmierczak on August 6, 2010 at 4:02 pm | permalink | Reply you really hit the jackpot with the farmer. he's smart and funny. he deserves you!

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2009

I think of your doughnut technique as associating EATING (junk food) with bad news which I wd never want for my kids since I am constantly worried that they'll use eating as a substitute for feeling and then they'll get fat and then they'll have a bad self-image and then.well, you get the idea. I couldn't sleep, either.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

There are sweeter ways… Posted by Joanie Wilcett on March 9, 2010 at 12:28 pm | permalink | Reply Soul food. They're the ones who work to put braces on their kids teeth, pay the utility bills, put food on the table, take the garbage out – do all that mundane stuff. Literally starving can be a relative thing.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

For starters I would recommend Country Life Daily Total One take 1 or 2 in the morning with some food. I could suggest other vitamins but hope you start with these are a good multi vitamin, not Centrum, but if you are unable to find a good health food store or order online then I guess you will have to take Centrum (take at least 3).

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

Like other people need to try new food to feel sane, or something like that. If anything, the past few months have been an experiment for me about how it feels to blog less. And it feels terrible. I think I probably need to blog to be sane. Not saying goodbye.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And then we started buying expensive, grocery store food for the cats instead of forcing them to fight for table scraps. When the farmer lived alone, it was so hard for the babies to stay alive that it was a sort of Malthusian society where, by the end of the winter, he was always down to a manageable population of five or six.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Tell him something you don't like that X interferes with (like laundry, or if they bring over food a lot). I don't think his 'attachment' to X is necessarily a negative, however the laundry bit is a little more than odd. Because I like to solve-problems; I suggest you two take baby steps.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The social and business rules are different from, say, university and being a student or grad student — or working in the food/restaurant industry. And actually, it is great info for people new to an office-oriented workplace. Also, some of these rules are probably good if you change jobs.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The food thing is so much more socially acceptable. It's the universal desire of people that the hard things should be made easy, and we have this insane idea that if we were anorexic, our food issues would be easy because we wouldn't have to think about them. I bring my VIN number to the window where the lady is.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The snow is a big deal if you have a thousand animals out in freezing weather and can’t get food to them. The farmer used to be haughty about food. And good food – always good food. Favorite brand: Whole Foods. The farmer is on the sofa. Mostly because I don’t know them. And I brought pie.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Have good food, fast Internet, and a sofa for avoiding both. Since this is an impromptu visit, there is no food to eat except beef. Sometimes two or three times. I never noticed that other people don’t do it until the farmer told me. So now, him wiping up the water on the counter feels intimate: he knows me so well. Stops at the barn.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Understand the impact food has on your moods. Now down off my soap box on junk food. I say, “Put on nice socks and let’s have breakfast.” I want to tell you I used a calm voice, but I worry I used a psycho, calm-before-the-storm voice. I make waffles. I watch the kids eat squishy, warm, covered-in-syrup waffles.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Today I am not happy because I am looking for a better job and I am worried about not having enough food for the kids. Since then I have met many “interesting” people whom I never would have met had I stayed in Boston, seen places I never even knew existed, and get a kick out of the bizarre language, food, and customs. I am homesick.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Would my generation tolerate marriage inequality, failing schools, an often-tainted food supply and a level of scorched earth politics? What if my generation ran for office as young women, often with young families? Could that change our country? Absolutely not."

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Elaborate games of hide and seek are played out in rain forests, deserts, and suburban backyards for her creatures to secure mates, food, status, and safety. She weaves camouflage. Encourages disguise. Everything from orchids, to moths, to we humans. All of us deceive — big deceptions, little deceptions.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I spend money on wood and stone and dirt and veggies and that is money well-invested, becuase it gives me hundreds of hours of enjoyment, by myself AND with my family, outside in the garden (not to mention all the food we grow ourselves). True frugality requires the ability to be objective about what is a good expenditure and what is waste.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Yes, the guys want to get laid, but dinner seems better: it's like money well spent to them – you still get the sex, but you also get good food. Yes, the guys want to get laid, but dinner seems better: it's like money well spent to them – you still get the sex, but you also get good food. What do you get with flowers?

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

My boss gave a good metaphor: Dinner's at 7 n the food has to be on the table at that time. My boss n manager noticed that I'm too much of a perfectionist n end up not getting anything done but I wasn't slacking. Posted by AC on March 26, 2010 at 5:36 am | permalink | Reply Thanks for the list!

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Food is a problem for me. My effort to control food got so extreme that I landed in a mental ward with an eating disorder. Too many details about food. You may want to try to find a healthier staple food. Establish routines to limit input. I hate variety. I hate that I don’t know what is coming. Everywhere.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

the organization is not-for-profit, but they need funding to make sure they stay alive, i can give people food, and they eat happily. Posted by Kathleen on October 31, 2009 at 7:51 pm | permalink | Reply Nobility don't put food on the table. i can help all of you. but i can't do that all the time, i need to eat too.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Mary Posted by Mary Budge on August 16, 2010 at 9:42 am | permalink | Reply The book 'Women Food God'… all about being lost, then sitting still and listening, and finding your life. Lost and loving it in Olympia, WA :) Posted by Jess @OpenlyBalanced on August 16, 2010 at 1:44 pm | permalink | Reply As food for thought.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You seem to be cursed with an immunity to the 'social instinct' That is, you forego the easy assimilation into society's prevalent coping mechanisms: TV, Facebook, lots of bad food, etc. Since you are not easily distracted from the vital lie, I reckon you must probe it, dissect it and emerge with an answer.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

So I am needlepointing, to stay focused on execution instead of food. She never mentioned charging the company for anything untoward just things like food and air fare. Cut into halves, then quarters, then cookie cutter shapes like stars. On a bad day it's one apple and ten apple pies.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I've had three themed blogs: my personal blog on myself, a food/retail blog, and a technology/business blog. Your post gave me some food for thought. Topics were what individual blog posts ended up being about, e.g. a wedding, a restaurant, why I like Ms. Trunk's blog. Sorry to nit-pick. What do I want people to know me for?

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 6, 2010

I’m the kind of cook that understands principles of food so I don’t ever use a recipe. Posted by MZA on January 6, 2010 at 10:12 am | permalink | Reply Yes, it's called "Good Eats" and it's on the Food network. Food for thought. Some of my kind fans have nominated me for travel and food). Bon Apetit!

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

People in their 30’s and 40’s write suicide notes that are informational to-do lists: Where the cat food is, when the kid’s homework is due, how to find the keys to the safety deposit box. Both types of letters are great examples of how people have totally lost perspective when they kill themselves.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

A snippet/summary from the article ( [link] ) – "In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food. " Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

That said, if you eat, you should care about agriculture and be willing to contribute to the food system. Since American consumers pay nowhere near the true cost of what it takes to produce food, expect to contribute through taxes that support subsidies, rising healthcare costs, and other hidden costs until this changes.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Like, the sweetness of the farmer and his parents working side by side for twenty years to pay off the farm, and the cleverness of the farmer figuring out how to be part of the local food movement without organic certification. When I first met the farmer and his parents I saw rolling fields, warm milk and grass-finished meat.

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