All the Bread I Never Ate

Judy Russ
8 min readAug 25, 2019

“The thing you fear the most in life” she explained*, “is the thing you’re meant to do.” And my skeptical, drolly comedic mind wondered. I was deathly afraid of alligators- but also certain that it was physically impossible to become one. I didn’t much like fast driving, either, but I’d also assumed my ideologies and political views would make it difficult to work for NASCAR.

Judy Russ

Where food & feelings converge // Full time writer & cook with the agricultural advantage in Amish country.