Stumped! (Part 2)
I’d been wrestling a tangle of trees from the ground like a beggar wrestles a hamburger. It was me versus half a dozen of…
September, 2013
Pepper pusher
Biting into a slice of pizza covered in pickled cherry peppers for the first time, my brain nearly melted. That combination of sweet, spicy,…
Falling for spring
Something about yesterday’s soggy, sunny-but-cool day felt like spring to me. And sure enough, when I started tromping through the side yard with a…
Smooth moves
The juicing craze has completely eluded me. Liquid meals are way too reminiscent of Soylent Green for my taste. And the pictures of broccoli…
Food stamp diet: Calorie count
Being a geek scientist, I like to talk numbers since it’s an easy way to objectively look at the results of an experiment. So…
Breaking fast
Here’s our loot from this morning’s grab at the downtown market. The food-stamp diet is over, for us, and we can breathe a deep,…
Food stamp diet: Day 7
In the end, we coasted to the finish line with ease. So why do we still feel so much unease? When we started the…
Food stamp diet: Day 6
Yesterday was the worst, by far. An almost continuous five-day headache reached a skull-thumping crescendo by lunchtime. That, coupled with the total inability to…
Food stamp diet: Day 5
So let’s talk about some of the other stuff. Let’s talk about going out with your friends to a Tuesday night movie and not…