Tag Archive | 7
Day 7: Whole30 (Grief Bacon)
Alrighty, one full week done of Whole30 done and I’m feeling awesome. Mercifully free of cravings and getting lots of yoga and hip rehab done. I’m doing this program to re-set my eating patterns, and having great success so far. Binges are now nil. Maybe I might drop a few pounds as well this month, […]
Zero 7’s Destiny
You know, I’ll forget about this song for a while and then I’ll hear it again, and then I have to listen to it twice. Some of Zero 7’s songs can be a little too chill, but this one is just a pretty song, and I like the take on crossing back over time zones as […]
7 Rules for Being Okay with Chronic Failure
The always wonderful Hairpin posted an article earlier this year titled “How to Fail for a Month, Year, or Decade and Be Okay.” Author Christina Fitzpatrick opens the piece with this: “I’ve been a published fiction writer for the past 12 years and haven’t published a new book in 10 of those, which is not […]
My 7 Cycles Choice
If you are thinking about getting me a new bike, I’ll take one of the custom frames from Seven Cycles, custom bike builders. I’ve already picked out my color combo: Electric Blueberry and Swimming Pool. Here’s the page if you want to play with colors on your fantasy titanium bike. I’ll take the Elium SL, […]
6.7.1976: Disco Goes Big in a Fraudulent Way
On June 7, 1976, New York magazine published a story that brought to life the night life of the disco era: “The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” by journalist Nik Cohn. As History.com notes: Disco as a musical style predated the movie Saturday Night Fever by perhaps as many as five years, but disco as […]
7 Ways to Discipline Your Child
Something about the way the “kid” shrieks has really grown on me. #6 is definitely my favorite of the approaches, though.
.07 Blood Alcohol = Better Recovery for Women Runners
A study designed for Runner’s World found that women ran 22% longer the morning after drinking beer. Granted, the study group was only 5 women, so not super valid. But, as the author notes: Turns out the research on alcohol and exercise is as herky-jerky as our culture’s attitude toward the bottle. Most early studies […]
3.7.13: The Day I Learned Of Coffee Butter
Some days, you just get out of bed, head downstairs, pee, turn on the kitchen light, let the cat out, feed the dog, check your phone, and think “this will be an ordinary day. A day like any other.” And then you check your email, because your phone is just right there, charging, and you […]
7 Equally Hard to Pronounce Names for February
Solmonath, meaning mud month, and Kale-monath, or cabbage month: Old English Helmikuu, meaning “month of the pearl” (for pearls of ice on tree brances): Finnish Luty, meaning the month of ice or hard frost: Polish/Ukranian. Sechko, meaning month of cutting [wood]: Macedonian Unor, meaning month of submerging [of river ice]: Czech Svečan, related to icicles […]
Roof Pig! Most Unexpected. 