cats and love

Note: I started writing this last Friday night. I’ve decided to leave what I wrote, and just do my best to wrap it up in the present. Oh the things we do for those we love. This post finds me sitting on the floor of our tiny bathroom hoping my cat will eat the expensive [...]

Political activism

I’m not one for rally’s. Or marches. Or anything of the sort. I lived in DC for 11 years, and never attended a single one (though I WISH I could have been there for the Rally to Restore Sanity!). So the irony of getting more politically active since I’ve left DC is not missed by [...]

2011 to do list

Every year for the past 7 years I’ve made a yearly to do list. This isn’t resolutions. Rather, if there is something I think I’d like to change, rather than resolving to change it, I think of something I can actually do to get to that end, and then that item gets added to my [...]

GF – back pain edition

I’ve been laid up since last night with severe back pain. I’ve done nothing but lie around all day. Ibuprofen didn’t touch it. Naproxen didn’t touch it. Heat and ice help, but having to get up to get them to switch up is painful. Walking is painful. Most sitting positions are painful. Thankfully I can [...]

Credit card fraud

TL;DR? If you get notified that your credit card information has been compromised, and the suggestion is to close the account and have your bank reissue a new one? DO IT!! The longer more detailed version: I placed an order with curlmart back the beginning of October for some curly hair products that were cheaper [...]

ANTS!!

1. Go check out The Ant Cam 2. Ask the ants questions on Twitter. You might be interested to know that fungus farming ants are one of the few organisms on this planet that farm (humans, fungal farming termites, and ambrosia beetles being the others that are currently known). But perhaps more interesting is the [...]

Different kinds of health

Generally when people talk about health, they are referring to physical health. I am of the mindset that there are many different kinds of health. Physical, mental, emotional, financial, spiritual etc. all matter in my book. Seven and a half years ago I made two big decisions that impacted multiple facets of my health. I [...]

Let It Begin With Me

What would it look like if I helped support other people on this path, rather than being indifferent to them or even worse, holding them down? Why, as a woman, do I find it so hard to want to stand up for my right to take care of my body how I see fit on [...]

ringworm

So apparently the only way to comment on blogs on tumblr is to have a tumblr account. I’m not signing up for another damn thing, especially just to leave a comment. I have so many freaking accounts in so many freaking places that I don’t want one just to inform someone of an error. So [...]

Guest Post

In addition to food, one of my other ‘hobbies’ is personal finance. And my reader story was posted today at Get Rich Slowly. Go check it out!

Moved!

I moved yesterday. The new place has a fabulous kitchen. Perhaps I will find my cooking mojo again and you all will start seeing recipes from me again. I’m finally starting to feel inspired again. And this week we should have internet access at the apartment, so I’ll even have a way to post them [...]

La Parra

I had the single best meal tonight for dinner since arriving in Costa Rica. If you are ever near the University of Costa Rica for dinner, I highly recommend La Parra. Like most restaurants in this area, it seems, they don’t have a website. But they are good solid Argentinian food. Their “address” is Barrio [...]

Tico times

If you have not been to Costa Rica, let me tell you a few things. One, it is not incorrect to say that many Ticos (what Costa Ricans call themselves) know English. However, for many of them, their English is about as good as the average American knows another language, which is to say not [...]

Costa Rica

My life schedule will be totally messed with likely for the next 2+ weeks. I’m in Costa Rica to do field work. So on the one hand, some of my food will probably be some of the best local food you can get. On the other hand, some of it will be pure crap. And [...]

composting – apartment style

There are a number of reasons why I joined a CSA last year, many of them environmental. I liked the idea of buying more of my food from someone who treated the earth a bit more sustainably. I also liked that it took less fossil fuels to get that food to me. Add in supporting [...]