An update: We’re spending some time petting the indelibly soft skin of baby Dax Gregory, appreciating all of his squeaky noises, his wiggles and flails from the unconscious realm of newborn sleep, his ridiculously cute feet, his razor sharp fingernails… And we’re recovering too, from all the unknown trials of having a first child, learning [...]
It’s hard to believe that I am now “term” with Dax. We will get to meet him whenever he’s ready to meet us — which could be in a few days or several weeks from now. I’ll let him decide what’s best!
I once lived off free bagels, water, and a free lunch. I couldn’t eat bagels for years. I haven’t been to the doctor in 8 years, because health insurance is broken. I let Chicago tow my car, and keep it. Best choice ever. We bicycle everywhere! I’ve stopped shaving to protest the culture of shaving [...]
Running for an hour was hard work. But, recovering this week was exceptionally brutal. My running streak was broken, but not before I got in one last mile run hobble on Monday night. I expected my recovery to be harder than average, because my right leg is an inch and a half shorter than my [...]
Once an onion sprouts, Greg has a hard time cutting into it (like, emotionally). This is our onion (one of many as we love onions around here) last spring. We put it in some dirt and let it grow for awhile, harvesting some of its shoots now and then. It grew very tall in our [...]
Eating junk food makes you sick. As soon as you finish off a plate of french fries or a pizza, you know you’ve done it to yourself. The stomach pains, lethargy, and digestion problems are just beginning. Most people eat junk food multiple times a day, and they eat it so often they lose touch [...]
Oh, Internet. How often I use you, but how little I accomplish! I am still here, still pregnant, and having much more fun eating now that I’m 23 weeks along with things. I admit to still being much more “casual” about veganism than I had been prior to pregnancy, but I’m finding nice ways to [...]
As Greg & I approach the 9-month mark of being not-so-casual vegans, I have been reflecting a bit on our transition into this lifestyle. I’ve noticed that the most difficult aspect of being a vegan is not the absence of animal products in our daily meals, nor understanding how our new diet affects our lives [...]
The leading website on organic milk is MealsMatter. They are exclusively funded by the meat and dairy council which has the sole goal to increase dairy and meat consumption at any cost to health and the environment. Sample “healthy” foods on their list are: Canadian bacon, cheese, and conventional milk. They claim organic milk is [...]
Casein is the most significant and powerful carcinogen known. Worrying about dioxins or PCBs only distracts you from the most common cancer causing compound nearly every American consumes in large quantities every day. In fact, all animal protein has been shown in rigorous, peer-reviewed, scientific studies to cause cancer. Yet, Milk protein is the worst [...]
Heat disease is the number 1 killer in the United States. More people die from heart disease in America than all other causes of death combined. It has become so common in the last 50 years that people now accept this unnatural disease as a natural fact of aging. However, there are many places in [...]
Q: If a completely plant-based diet isn’t possible for me, is it ok if I can at least eliminate red meat and cheese and eat a low-fat diet with egg whites, chicken, fish, and skim milk in addition to lots of fruits and vegetables? A: A low-fat, completely vegan diet is the healthiest diet of [...]
It’s a pretty awesome time to go to the Garfield Park Conservatory here in Chicago for vegans and non-vegans alike. Their spring flower show is in full force until May 10th, and all about the conservatory, edible things bloom with the spring. We saw bananas, pineapples, limes, agave (okay, no agave blooms), black pepper plant, [...]
I was thinking about plants in peoples’ yards as spring kind of starts here in Chicago. I walk around and bicycle around and see everyone’s bulbs coming up and flowers blooming a little, and I can’t help but think: How awesome would it be if more people were to grow food instead of flowers? I [...]