friendship Archives - The Five Fish

January 30, 2019February 2, 2019

The Neighborhood Circle

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Hard to believe that just seventeen months ago our family consolidated our items, packed them into a 51 foot moving van, and set off across the country on a one-way flight. The event seems such a distant memory with much of the details still a bit fuzzy due to the expediency in which everything took place. Life seems so ordinary these days in the circle of our lives; work, school, sports, dinner, relax and bed, only to rinse and repeat each day. With the occasional weekend get together with our new friends in our neighborhood circle. Continue reading “The Neighborhood Circle”

August 14, 2018

Knives and Friendship

I had a set of knives gifted to me back in December 2016. For the past 18 months I struggled with these knives in my kitchen, I never had the right sharpness for what I was looking to accomplish in my culinary adventures. Constantly working against me, I would sharpen the knife, always giving the knife another shot that if I sharpened it just right and used what was provided (the honing steel) that maybe it would get the job done. I took great lengths to care for these knives, and hated to get rid of them, but one day I decided time to rid myself of the emotional upset of these knives and bought my very own set of Cutco knives. What never occurred to me was the metaphor of knives and friendship. Continue reading “Knives and Friendship”

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Karie Herring is a reformed corporate working mom, idiot savant of business operations, finance and lending. She's living her best retired life just east of Orlando in Florida where she continues working in consumer lending, is owner and founder of Oviedo Olive Oil and coaches Crossfit in her spare time. She still remains a chef and short order cook to her high school aged twins and eldest son who attends UCF as part of the Mechanical Engineering program. Read all about her ramblings of living in Phoenix, AZ and moving to Orlando, FL. Karie talks about local events, motherhood, living an organic lifestyle, following and serving in Christ, the occasional fart joke and how her husband is super understanding and tolerates all her shenanigans.