Although I've been eating pretty horribly and not paying too much attention to working out since Mei-mei has been sick, I noticed this morning that I appear to have less back fat than I did a few months ago ( Read more... )

I've been having some serious thoughts on health lately ( Read more... )

brickhousewench came to visit this weekend and helped me go through Barney's book collection. We didn't exactly get it catalogued (there must be over 2000 books there, just hardcovers without ISBNs, not to mention the paperbacks and ISBN-holding books in the shipping materials that I will be putting up on Amazon). But we broke down a van's worth of cardboard ( Read more... )

All my whining and thumb-sucking yesterday did NOT lead to chocolate or ice cream or even potato chips. So that's a little victory ( Read more... )

Okay. I feel I have to explain something. A friend linked an article on Facebook yesterday that said scientists did studies of people they put on diets in hospital (so they could strictly control everything they ate) and they found that high-protein/low-carb diets were no more effective than high-carb/low-fat diets. Or any other kind of diet. ( Read more... )

For me, it isn't a reference to an 80s horror movie franchise. It isn't even a quasi-scholarly reference to the Knights Templar. I was born on a Friday the 13th (although in October, not July), and they've always been my happiest birthdays ( Read more... )

After a bowl of Greek yogurt and fresh blueberries, I ripped up the weeds lining the left side of the driveway. Since most of them were growing in leafmould, I got out the broom and swept what I could away. Now I have a driveway that needs to be swept with a better broom than the one I own (which is great for getting leafmould in corners but ( Read more... )

Some friends have asked me why I've decided to go grain-free. It's a simple story, really. Back in September 2010, I did a fitness program at a gym in Philadelphia called Relentless Fitness and they recommended Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal ( Read more... )

So yesterday an article came up on Facebook: http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/gluten-issues-or-celiac-dont-drink-coffee/Read more... )

On Monday, Bob did an awesome job of going through the summer kitchen like a whirlwind and he's put some old armour bits on our website for sale: http://store.reconstructinghistory.com/sale.html Also, there is a futon couch, a treadle sewing machine (Read more... )