My grandparents and my Mom generously paid off my car for me for Christmas. I feel slightly guilty, but also extremely grateful and happy that it has made me 100% debt-free. I also have a plan for the next month, some not-so-sneaky maneuvers up my sleeve, that will get some other things going for me …
Have you ever had nutritional yeast? I know, it doesn’t sound good at all. But I’ve learned a lot about it since I started reading about vegetarianism. It’s not that I never eat meat…but I just prefer veggies (and I’m too lazy to cook meat for just myself!). Nutritional yeast, nicknamed Nooch, is an inactivated …
Remember when I talked about how eating too much tuna is not good for you? Get it from a can, and it’s even worse (plus, the can is most likely lined with BPA containing plastic). Note: Chick pea surprise is a great sub for tuna, but it would also be best to not get the …
“The problem isn’t that we have bodies, the problem is that we’re not living in them.” – Geneen Roth When I talk to people about the concept of mindfulness, their eyes usually glaze over. I use a person’s reactions to my initial comments as a gauge to help me figure out how far to go …
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I just finished watching the local news, which was reporting sensationally on the health of women in the US. Note: 12 states failed, and no state excelled. We’re not surprised, right? They noted that the states doing particularly poorly were those who did not have any legislation about health, or any promotional or educational campaigns aiming to …
I have spent most of my adolescent and adult life trying to be in good shape, and at different times I’ve been in better and worse physical condition, with the low points being (1) after my sister died and I moved from Boston back to Penn Yan (aka: the land of Pizza Hut eaters, no …
My wellness habits occur in cycles. I don’t do this on purpose, but I tend to stick to something for a while, and then move onto something else. One thing that keeps coming up over and over is green juice. My weekend of juices in NYC (not all green) made me crave more when I …
On the way to NYC, we flipped and flopped around the radio stations, and (before I realized what it was) Joe started to flick quickly past this one song that is a quintessential Jen and Steve song from high school. I never listened to country music, but those two rednecks-in-training did…you know, sometime between when they were …
Joe and I spent the weekend in NYC. Our plan was to head out of Rochester on Friday after work and drive to the city, stay at Hotel Indigo, catch a show, and patronize One Lucky Duck and Pure Food and Wine (in possibly an unnatural frequency…but hey, we can only get to NYC just …
Joe and I have a code word for calling a “do-over” that is used when we’re in a conversation that one of us wants to get out of. You know when you’re discussing something and it starts to become about being right instead of about the actual topic at hand? Or when you don’t mean …
