I've been making big changes for my health the last three weeks. Things have been going well ( Read more... )

It is dark, chilly and wonderfully dreary out today. After a couple days of strangely sunny and relatively warm weather I am overjoyed at the return of some real Fall weather. In honor of the dark and dreary morning I've made a special Autumn breakfast treat.

Oatmeal cooked in a Pumpkin!


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This past fall/winter has not been kind to me. It has been incredibly stressful (good and bad stress alike.) I got sick a lot, had some serious sinus issues, took several rounds of antibiotics, developed asthma and had a pretty deep seasonal depression. To top it all off I didn't exercise nearly enough and I fell back into some really horrid eating ( Read more... )

About two years ago I started eating meat after almost twelve years of being mostly vegetarian. (I say mostly because I would swing back and forth between vegan, vegetarian and eating fish only.) My reasons for being veggie changed over the twelve years. It was never out of any feeling of guilt over killing and eating animals. It started as an easy ( Read more... )

I saw Kung Fu Panda shortly after it came out. (Side note: It was freakin’ hilarious. I love it. It has made me a Jack Black fan again. I was able to forgive him for the movie Shallow Hal.) At one point the Panda has ransacked the kitchen and his Master walks in. With the Master staring at him in shock the Panda says “What? I eat when I’m upset, ( Read more... )

If I can’t be pregnant than, damn it, I’m going to be fertile somewhere ( Read more... )