VOLUME UP! (I SO LOVE THIS!)
Thank you Sue W.
Oh, I need it! Oh, I need your help!
August 24, 2020 by 36 Comments
VOLUME UP! (I SO LOVE THIS!)
Thank you Sue W.
Running Away. From the Salt Benediction.
December 15, 2018 by 74 Comments
We have a bad situation here. (Very)
One needs to take personal accountability. Yet, if I could, I would, find anyone, anything, to blame.
The digital Nokia scale (Nokia Body Cardio WiFi Smart Scale in Black) was a Christmas gift from the kids last year. The gift wasn’t a subliminal message, but a blow with a blunt instrument. They see it, I can’t hide it. Man boobs. Pooch maturing to hang belly. And everything else, sliding, down, down, down.
So, for the next ~320 days, the morning ritual is the same. Step on the scale. Step off the scale. The Scale wirelessly sends the data to the iPhone app. The app fires off a notification:
“New weight measurement available. Stepping on the scale every morning and opening Health Mate regularly will help you stay on track.”
Right. Right.
Tuesday:
Nokia alert: “Good job. Your weight is up only 0.3 lbs from the day before.” Monday. Box of chocolates from colleague as a holiday gift along with a thank you note. A constant beckoning presence on my desk, a siren call. I put the conference call on mute. Pop a chocolate covered caramel in my mouth. Close my eyes. Let that blessing melt down my throat. [Read more…]
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: Breakfast!
July 24, 2017 by 23 Comments
An Atlantic puffin holds a mouthful of sand eels on the island of Skomer, off the coast of Wales. (wsj.com, Rebecca Naden, Reuters, July 18, 2017)
Breakfast
February 22, 2017 by 30 Comments
“A child scrapes the leftovers from his meager lunch at a refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. More than a million Rohingyas, originally from Myanmar, are living without basic amenities in government camps like Kutupalong.”
Source: Sushavan Sandy, Nurphoto, Zuma Press, February 21, 2017, wsj.com
Dinner! Let’s eat together…
February 16, 2017 by 36 Comments
Stick with this to the finish…
Thank you Susan
Holy Cheese (15, yes, 15!)
February 13, 2017 by 45 Comments
We’re a member of the 1%! 15 different types of cheese in our refrigerator, which led to a “conversation” about what the cheese is going on here…
Source: NY Times Magazine
I refuse to do drive-through. I am not a grazer, I am not a cow. You eat. You sit down.
November 17, 2016 by 24 Comments
“I refuse to do drive-through. I am not a grazer, I am not a cow. You eat. You sit down. You put a napkin there. And it has to have the colors. If you’re having a steak then you’ll have a little carrots because it’s really yellow, and it looks good. And maybe a little broccoli. So that the plate — first, you plate it. And my aunt, because my uncle died, and she’d been very sad. And I had to call her and say, “Ag, what’d you have for” — you know, because she didn’t have any daughters, right? And so I said, “Ag, what’d you have for dinner?” She said, “Oh, I just had a bowl of cereal.” I said, “You can’t do that. You have to plate your food.” You have to take of yourself. I’ve started to have massages because it’s like, I have to make time to have a massage. It feels great, somebody just rubbing oil in your back. Where’s the downside? You have to do things to remind yourself that it’s a really good idea to be alive.”
Nikki Giovanni, excerpt from Bill Moyers’ interview with Nikki Giovanni
Notes: Quote Source: Wait-What?. Photo of Nikki Giovanni: Jackson State University News Room
Dinner
March 21, 2016 by 14 Comments
It was a table laid for men of good will. Who could be the actual expected guests who hadn’t come? But it really was for us. So that woman gave away her best to just anyone? And contentedly washed the feet of the first stranger. Embarrassed, we stared. The table had been spread with a solemn abundance. Piled on the white tablecloth were stalks of wheat. And red apples, enormous yellow carrots, plump tomatoes nearly bursting their skin, watery-green chayote, pineapples malignant in their savagery, calm and orangey oranges, gherkins spiky like porcupines, cucumbers wrapped taut round their watery flesh, hollow red peppers that stung our eyes— all entangled with strands and strands of corn silk, reddish as near a mouth. And all those grapes. They were the deepest shade of purple grape and could hardly wait for the moment they’d be crushed. And they didn’t care who crushed them. The tomatoes were plump to please no one: for the air, for the plump air. […]
We kept eating. Like a horde of living beings, we gradually covered the earth. Busy like people who plow for their existence, and plant, and harvest, and kill, and live, and die, and eat.
~ Clarice Lispector, “The Sharing of Loaves.” The Complete Stories (New Directions. 2015)
Notes:
- Photo: C’est Cheese – (away)with Tomatos
- Related Posts: Clarice Lispector
A Seat At The Table
January 24, 2016 by 19 Comments
[…] the most incredible thing that has happened to me is that it is my version of a fairy tale that I’ve found in this unlikely and unexpected family a home that I’ve never had before.”
Dinner.
Family.
A Seat At The Table.
Moved.
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
May 11, 2015 by 15 Comments
Federal Recreation Lands Photo Contest. Honorable Mention selection for “Wildlife” by Koustav Maity, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Source: Recreation.gov
Push my body to the limit
April 13, 2015 by 35 Comments
i like to push my body to the limit
but not in the healthy living way
more like in the how much pasta can i eat
before im unable to physically move way
~ angie
Source: Looks Delicious
SMWI*: It’s been a long week! (Of Feeding)
December 27, 2014 by 12 Comments
Notes:
- SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
- Source: Red Panda by Matthew Pacunas via jaimejustelaphoto
Splitting an Order
November 7, 2014 by 14 Comments
I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half,
maybe an ordinary cold roast beef on whole wheat bread,
no pickles or onion, keeping his shaky hands steady
by placing his forearms firm on the edge of the table
and using both hands, the left to hold the sandwich in place,
and the right to cut it surely, corner to corner,
observing his progress through glasses that moments before
he wiped with his napkin, and then to see him lift half
onto the extra plate that he asked the server to bring,
and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
while she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,
her knife, and her fork in their proper places,
then smooths the starched white napkin over her knees
and meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him.
~ Ted Kooser, Splitting an Order
Image: Dreamstime
Batting .500!
August 13, 2014 by 12 Comments
All good on the caffeine, alcohol and exercise fronts! (So sad on the latter)!
Source: The Huffington Post via Ilovecharts
SMWI*: Weight Loss Tips
June 14, 2014 by 13 Comments
Live & Learn 