At times the restaurant business is all consuming. In 1974, while in
college, I applied to cook at this little hippie restaurant upstairs
in an old building on the corner of Locust and Vine in the "student
ghetto" as it was and is fondly referred to. The Troubadour restaurant
was a very warm space that has been left pretty much unchanged all
these years under the watchful eye of Kim Kavanaugh owner/chef of
Cosmos Cusina/O'Duffy's .

That was the beginning of some overlap of my career choices and Kim's.
Kim and I were not close friends but women committed to running
restaurants focused on working with fresh local foods within our
"neighborhoods".

Time seems so precious these days as I watch many of my close friends
go through cancer, care for their aging parents and begin the empty
nest phase of life. One begins to ask if what they spend 70 +hrs a
week doing makes life worth it?

I know for Kim she gave a large piece of her life to Cosmos/O'Duffys
and her neighborhood. She both loved and tired of the business I
sensed. I only hope she was able to find some peace in the realization
that she brought joy to so many people with such a warm comfortable
place to gather and eat great food. I celebrate her life and I will
miss her.

Julie