Category Food
Spring break weekend
What do Cancun and DC have in common? Spring breakers. Cancun gets the party-wild college kids; DC gets the school groups. They arrive in giant charter buses and troop through the city in matching t-shirts while learning about Our Nation’s Capitol. Oh, to be a student with regular buit-in vacations! Normally spring just rolls right by me — […]
Phone-less, again.
I am having the worst luck with iPhones. I’ve hade one for less than a year, and already I’ve lost two. The first time it fell out of my bag in a Crate & Barrel while I was shopping for shower curtains. This time it fell off my seat during a standing ovation at the Kennedy […]
Ladyfood, caveman style
So. You’re a caveman. You’re all fit from crossfitting and eating mastodons and birdseed and stuff, and you get invited to a potluck with your team so that you can score some points and beat the competition. What do you bring? The answer isn’t obvious. Especially when the hostess is making some famous chili recipe and everyone […]
What I ate
I spent more time cooking this weekend than I have in years! Two reasons for that: First, having arrived at the end of the second week of this paleo/primal challenge, I was oh so bored of eating the same rotation of grilled meats and fresh vegetables/fruits — I needed a more complicated and satisfying hot […]
Eat like a caveman (or, Careful what you sign up for!)
Okay, so you know how I’ve been going to the local Crossfit gym for a few months now, right? Well, in early January they announced a “Primal Nutrition Challenge” and encouraged us all to sign up. I paid only enough attention to learn that there would be a nutrition seminar followed by a structured program […]
All the happy things
I hope everyone had as good a weekend as I did. Here are the highlights: I. There’s nothing like blowing off work on a Saturday afternoon to eat some tasty barbecue with good friends. My original plan had been to spend the bulk of the day working, trying to get a head start on the […]
Good friends, good food, and some very beginning ballet
Remember my little rant last week about friends and flakiness and sitting at home watching movies alone? Well, I’m happy to say that this weekend went much more smoothly. I. Yesterday morning dawned chilly and bright. I got up early and checked my work email — a slew of documents had come in overnight that […]
Playing catch-up
So it’s been, what, a week since I last wrote? Argh. If it had been just an ordinary week, I wouldn’t worry about it — one of the biggest stumgling blocks (at least for me) in journal writing or blogging is feeling like I have to capture all the Big Moments that I missed writing about before I […]
Utah/Idaho – Over the river and through the woods
Once upon a time there was a boy (hint: it’s me!) who grew up in the mountains and liked snow and had no idea that the continental breakfasts served by Comfort Inn were not delicious. Then that boy grew up and moved to the Big City and got corrupted by the Michelin Guide and sometimes wore nice leather driving moccasins. One day […]
Denver – Christmas Day
I awoke with a start in the wee hours of the morning — I had forgotten that there was a videoconference scheduled in my bedroom for exactly that time, and if I didn’t hurry, I would be caught sleeping in bed when everyone else dialed in to resume negotiations. I scrambled out into the living […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 