There’s not a bite or a sound clip or a quote for me to pull from this podcast—there was just too much—so I’m just going to recommend listening to the whole thing. Dax Shepard (Armchair Expert) talks with Johann Hari about his research and books exploring addiction. Much of the information was not new to … Read more
Tomorrow’s post is a recommendation for a podcast episode I’ve been listening to. (I still have about half an hour left, and I’m not going to post about it until I’ve heard the whole thing, even though you could listen to half of what I’ve completed so far and it would be worthwhile.) They’re talking … Read more
The Climbing Daddy and I were at the climbing gym the other day, and there were some parents with a young child on the beginner wall. The kid was maybe a third of the way up the wall, and the parents were yelling all sorts of suggestions and directions up at her. I turned to … Read more
In January, I wrote about a chart I’d made to track behaviors of health and self-care. I had thought—or, more accurately, hoped—that seeing holes in the list would spur me to do some of the things that simply haven’t been getting done, even if the increase was to once a week, or once every other … Read more
I have been listening to a series on creativity on Freakonomics. One episode was on failure, and there was a notion that caught my attention. They repeatedly referred to drafts as failures. I write a lot nowadays. I’ve done more years of formal schooling than I care to count (but would be a professional student … Read more
I have no role model in my family to show me what life looks like as an aging healthy person. I don’t know what life expectancy is. I know one of my great-grandmothers lived to somewhere around 100 (she edited her birth certificate when she immigrated here so she could get work, so we’re not … Read more
I am, in some ways, incredibly lazy. Laziness has saved me from so much junk food. If I’m at home and am craving something, almost always, I’m too lazy to go out and get it. (This is most likely because the craving is trying to fill the hole created by lazy/bored/maybe sad, and going to … Read more
We hear this often. We say this often. There are a few different types of people when it comes to this. There are the people who give up early with a sigh and a shrug and say, “I did my best.” There are the people who are tenacious and work way harder than perhaps they … Read more
Just want to go on record … I have been known to say—and will continue to say—that sweets aren’t really food and to pitch leftovers. I’m not saying they’re not delicious or that they have no significance outside of health concerns. There are lots of sweet treats that are fantastic! And many have significant emotional … Read more
If you save the sweets for the kids because “you don’t need it,” or indulge them on a regular basis in dessert-type foods, your perspective on sweets might be still tied to calories or weight and not linked to health. (Or maybe you just don’t care, which is also possible. Or you care but just … Read more