Tired of working? Take a break!

deniseolesky.com is part of three carnivals this week:

• Carnival of struggling bumbling newbies includes my post on breast cancer survivor
• Carnival of travel includes my post on thought you’d never do a bus tour? think again
• Writerly types includes my post on are you a cube potato?

I’d like to take a break for a moment from my usual article writing, to share a poem I wrote for my mother. 

Ten years ago my mother fought, and won, a battle with breast cancer.  And ten years later, I continue to admire her calm strength that made her the survivor she is today.

Please, share your victories and inspirations.

1. You’ll need a “how to make your own pizza” cookbook.
2. Following your new cookbook, go to the grocery story and buy the necessary ingredients.  Don’t forget the rolling pin.
3. Prepare the pizza dough according to the cookbook.
4. Flatten the dough and stretch it out into a circle using your hands.  Turn the dough over several times making the circle bigger each time. 

As you will see, each time you stretch out the dough it will retract back to the same small first circle you started with.

5. Using your rolling pin, try rolling out the dough into a large pizza like circle. 

As you can see, the rolling pin will not stretch the dough into a large pizza like circle, and the dough will again retract back to its original small circle form.

6. Try throwing the dough in the air (some people enjoy singing Italian themed music during this time).  Be sure to spin it at the same time to stretch the dough.  After several minutes you’ll see this doesn’t work either.
7. Repeat steps four and five until you get really good and aggravated.
8. Ask yourself why you felt the need to make your own pizza.
9. Call the pizza place down the street.  Let’s face it – you’re never going to roll this dough yourself …