Gotta tell ya, there is something heartwarming about homemade food that always has me on the search for give-it-to-me-mama recipes! Sometimes they may be decadent, even though I confess to tweaking some to cut cals and or to add my fave flavors and spices. So what is your favorite comfort food? Scroll on down, add your answers + links if you have em’…we are all here patiently waiting to be comforted….

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If you are hankering for something right now…here are a couple of links to feed you:

♥ Best Baked Macaroni and Cheese
♥ Ground Beef Pie

**Find out more about how to add a ‘Comfort Food Share’ (form on Google docs) to your blog or website by visiting my lens I Love Google Docs. If you have any questions, I am just an e-mail away!

SUBMISSIONS: What is your fave comfort food?

♥ Boshemia: Oatmeal with tons of butter and brown sugar.
♥ Jennifer: Anything cheesy. I like rich, easy to cook, comfort foods. Please try Simple Ham and Cheese Quiche.
♥ Jimmie: Fresh Bread.
♥ Joan Adams: Oh when the winter winds are roaring, and it’s bitterly cold outside, there is nothing better than a big pot of sausage bean chowder and a cake of cornbread! yummy! It smells so good when it is cooking – I always double the recipe!
♥ JaguarJulie: Stuffed Cabbage…thank you Grandma Julia Nagy for being there for us grandchildren when we came to live with you. You are my guardian angel — can’t think of a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t think about you and what you taught us.
♥ SandySpider: Has added a to die for recipe from her head for Homemade Chicken Soup. You just have to check out her mom-inspired recipe…it is a good for the soul soup with a few twists

“My point is that people don’t become leaders because they have charisma; people get charisma because they’re leaders.” ~Seth Godin

So what is charisma?

• German sociologist Max Weber describes it as, “…a certain quality of an individual personality, by virtue of which s/he is “set apart” from ordinary people and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These as such are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as divine in origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader.”
• Tina from ThinkSimpleNow wrote in her article 8 Keys to Instant Charisma some interesting points to ponder. I’ve added these lensmasters in action:

1. Mirroring
2. Remember Names – Help! I’ve Lost My Hippocampus
3. Be Interested – Thank You Lensmasters – Squidoo Review
4. Allow Others to Talk – Add Your Profile Make New Friends
5. Intention – Fresh Squid
6. Offer Help – Lensmasters Helping Lensmasters
7. Smile -Smiles and Smileys Spread the Joy
8. Authenticity – Lensmaster JaguarJulie, one awesome lady!

It is not hard to find and feel the charisma on Squidoo…people doing great things everyday to inform, share, and help others. Discover for yourself and make sure to share your favorite charismatic Squidoo lens or blog post in the comments section.

By now, I think many of you know I love to randomly wonder around Squidoo. There are some real awesome things you can find either by searching a word or by finding a lens that has been referred to you via Tagfoot, delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter, or any number of other online sites.

Well, when I headed into The making of a School Shooter via a referral link, I was totally taken in…I could not stop reading. The lens left me knowing I had to contact the lensmaster to ask the buzz-in-my-head question:”How were you able to write this in an objective manner when it could so easily turn emotional, give away your inner feelings? Boshemia replied, “Never satisfied with the answers, I always wanted to know more. I like standing in the middle of an issue and trying to see both sides, in a way playing devil’s advocate.” This most excellently exhibits what you can expect while reading this lens…no judgment, thought provoking questions, and you immediately get the sense you are reading something that is well researched.

Taking my contact a little bit further I asked boshemia to express herself, let us all get a glimpse into why she writes on Squidoo…this is her reply: “Socrates said that “The unexamined life is not worth living”, he believed that the purpose of human life was growth, both personal and spiritual. I agree with him. When you take a close look at your life, you see patterns. When you look at the lives of others those patterns expand. Human nature becomes less of a mystery once you see and understand those patterns.

Life is beautiful, even the ugly parts of it carry a certain beauty. On my blog, in my novels, and here at Squidoo I explore many of these patterns we find recurring throughout our lives.”

Join me as I explore life and the meaning behind the events we witness….link to join boshemia on Squidoo.