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A Nourished Body: Weeks 1 to 8

I spent the last 8 weeks, give a day or two, rebooting my food choices by going crazy strict about everything. I gave up sugar. I gave up flour. I gave up dairy. I started to reduce oil, but ended up having more. I went nuts with boredom. I started feeling overwhelmed with what felt…

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A year off to a good start

I started off the year wanting to make this a year well-spent in terms of improving how I use my free time, as well as how I reduce the level of stress that I have to deal with. Not that I have an extraordinary amount of stress, it’s just mostly normal stuff about life, but…

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Connection

I have only left the United States once in my life, to visit Canada. While I’ve definitely got plenty of interest in seeing parts of the world, I don’t have any desire to spend an excessive amount of money to fly over to any of these places by plane. I’m sure this has a lot…

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The Sweet Coffee Death

Approximately 20 years ago, I discovered the joys of sweet coffee. An American explorer trudging across the vast … sidewalks of Monterey. As I poured an avalanche of sugar into my coffee cup at the Golden West (where now resides a less-personable Denny’s), my eyes perked. My taste buds tingled. This was a gift from…

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the space

I did not grow up with religion as part of my life, but with the philosophy of Buddhism. I am thankful for both of those truths, even though now I have not been an atheist for at least fifteen years. I am thankful for Buddhist thought being one of my guiding posts in life. It…

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The anchor’s a weight

Weight, excess weight, is like an albatross in my life, weighing me down and trapping me in the middle of an unsympathetic ocean. It is an anchor, and not an attractive one. If I sound glum about it, it’s because I am. Thankfully, I am generally not the kind of person that lets the suckiness…

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Coffee transfusions

I have tried numerous times to quit coffee because of the caffeine, but don’t tend to last longer than a month. Usually it’s just a few days. Intentions count for something, right? Since it seems the majority of America consists of caffeine addicts, including coffee drinkers like me, the usual response to my trying to…

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A poppyseed of reality

No apology. Minimalist posts allowed here. Anything goes. Two simple truths: Planning out meals in advance increases success rate. Plans go awry, especially if you are a mouse.