Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick-Gudrow your host today's episode is a short one

I will be making some announcements. I think you might be interested in

And some of you would have heard these announcements if you were at the Patreon only event we had

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So some of you would have heard me talk about the year that I've had. It's been an interesting one

There's definitely been some disappointment this year and there's been some loss and there's been some grief

And there's been some stress and all of that led to some soul-searching as those kinds of things should and often does and

So I've really thought long and hard this year and I still continue to think long and hard about my role, my place, my future,

what I'm doing, where I'm productive, where I'm valuable, if I'm valuable, if I'm still needed, all of those things

So those are the kinds of things, you know, just a couple small light light

Questions I've been asking myself

I

You would have heard me say that the bad news is, you know, three of my books went out of print

This year the vegan table color me vegan and vegans daily companion

My husband would say the only constant in this world is change and it is true

They had a good run and once they're sold out and they might already be sold out over in bookstores and Amazon

They will not be reprinted the good news is that the rights to all of the recipes were reverted back to me

So that is bad news good news the bad news is that the publisher of the 30-day vegan challenge got bought by another publisher

Who didn't want the 30-day vegan challenge so this poor book has been orphaned again

The good news is I cannot let go and another publisher has taken over this book

So that is still

Around and alive, but once those copies are sold I probably don't have it in me to print more and to I just probably don't have it in me

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