Sign Up for SRQ Daily Advertise in SRQ Daily Send a Letter Submit News Bite-sized and Beautiful Lori Meyer, who spent 25 years as a contractor, was the friend everyone told to quit her day job. “You should do this for a living,” they said, “this is too pretty to eat,” while devouring her baked goods. The instinct started as a teenager, babysitting, when she’d end up in the kitchen boiling pumpkins and rolling dough to keep everyone busy.