January 27, 2012 - Have your cake and eat it, too!

_Chocolate Cake Day, Holocaust Memorial Day, Fun at Work Day

_Nothing like starting Chocolate Cake Day with a good, hard workout. P. S. It's snowing!

Today's Friday (you know this), so no fun at work for me! Instead, I'll be experimenting with chocolate cake recipes. I'm going to make cupcakes using a box mix as well as a "from scratch" recipe and see if I can tell the difference. This might blow my mind and I'm a little nervous.

_But first, a few thoughtful quotes to help us take pause
in remembrance of the Holocaust.

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“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
― Elie Wiesel

_“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate.
Or we can try to make things better.”
― Carol Matas, Daniel's Story

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“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful.
In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...”
― Jane Yolen

_“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator,
but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
― Yehuda Bauer