I love my public radio stations, but too often the message is doom-and-gloom, and frankly, it’s stressful. Who needs a reminder of what’s going wrong in the world? Richard Louv, on the other hand, during a recent radio interview, soothed my spirit as he proselytized on the benefits available to all of us with a regular…
Category: Eating Clean
Saturday Afternoon
Creamsicle Smoothie 1 cup milk or coconut milk 1 Emergen-C packet (I used tangerine flavor) 2 scoops protein powder of your choice 1 orange, peeled and quartered 1/2 packet Stevia (optional) 3 ice cubes I loaded up the VitaMix and let it whirr on high for 30-60 seconds. Absolutely delicious results. Creamsicles were my favorite…
Eat Your View – Sunday Road Trip
There’s something about fresh, fresh produce that infuses my world view with hope and a life-is-good attitude. It seems important to put my pocketbook where my soap box sits, so I’m making a point to search out and support the retail businesses of local farmers. Jones Farm is down the road a piece, in Chelmsford,…
Sweet Spot
When a friend gently encouraged me to read The Artist’s Way (and do the book’s exercises, too, of course), I was in a slump. My little health food/cafe store had recently closed and I was grieving. My friend knew there was creativity burbling beneath the surface but I couldn’t feel it. But I trusted my…
Post-thesis Celebration
There it is, in the right-hand corner of the photo: the project that kidnapped me for two years. Words cannot describe the relief I feel now that I’m on the other side of 59,000 words and the emotional archaeological dig required to write Handmade Heart – On the run and looking for love. What better…
Eating Clean is More Fun with a Friend
I love the idea of healing from within — with nutrition. So it’s always fun to visit one particular friend who is doing just that and making great strides with her health. Since purchasing a Vita Mix several months ago, she’s been whipping up all kinds of veg-fruit concoctions. Upon my arrival on Friday afternoon,…
The Joys of Social Knitting and then some
We’ve been meeting regularly (well, almost) for years. Our knitting group began with five of us who were also part of a grassroots entrepreneurial support group. Membership is casual and unofficial. Sometimes only two of us have shown up and on other occasions there have been as many as ten or twelve of us. We used…
Thinking about it …
… but I haven’t given up the (decaff) coffee yet! There’s so much I love about the idea of more fresh foods and less processed or what I consider my comfort foods: white and sweet. The biggest challenge for me is eating foods in groups — fruit by itself in the a.m. only; no nut…
Green Lemonade – a raw detox beverage
Green Lemonade on Thanksgiving It’s all over the internet. There are how-to videos on YouTube. And my sister-in-law prepared a fresh batch for us yesterday. Absolutely delicious. And it’s transformed the health and wellness of a good friend of hers. The combination of lemon with apple (I’m told Fuji apples are the best because of…
healthy lunch – a snowy tuesday
salad: spinach, broccoli slaw, yellow bell pepper, feta cheese, homemade oil and vinegar dressing soup: chicken broth with carrots, onion and celery with barley and two leftover wedges of pink grapefruit.healthy lunch – a snowy tuesday, originally uploaded by DreamnBig.