DIY Lotion: only 3-5 ingredients!

In the unlikely case you’ve been wondering, I’ve been knee-deep in the To Do List lately, and items like blog posting had to be pushed way down on the priority ladder by default. More importantly, real rest/sleep crucially needed to find a way to surface at the top or everything else would be rendered pointless and/or shoddy. Thus, the slightly extended cyber silence.  In other words, I’m arriving at a...

Rim to Rim to Rim: Anticipation to Euphoria to Del...

How do you begin to write up a continuous 18-hour adventure (not counting the long build-up that preceded), one full of the most indescribable highs and lows, the likes of which insist on playing out in your head well after the stimulus to the emotion has gone? It’s been three full days since we completed our mammoth journey, and I’m still reliving the experience. My mind has created a cycle of sub-par highs and...

This Run Gets to be “Epic”: Pawnee Buc...

Not a recipe post this time, folks, but somewhat food related, and very fitness relevant! Sometimes, experimenting with reductions and alternatives to granulated sugar in cooking and baking, I play this little mental game with myself. I pretend I’m at an impasse with a logical hard-liner who relentlessly quips, “sugar is sugar”. Attempting to not become frazzled, I try to muster knowledge of facts and...

Mt. Evans Ride for Pie (Summer Stone Fruit Pie Rec...

I’ll come clean and say it straightaway…originally I baked this pie (mostly) just so I could tell you about how much fun it is biking up Mt.Evans, but with a legitimate food tie-in, healthy (and healthy-ish) food being the ultimate reason for this blog. The real inspiration to begin with, really was Mt. Evans however, because Mt. Evans, one of Colorado’s spectacular 14ers and home to America’s highest...

Tofu Moussletoe: Easy Mousse Becomes Frosting

I can only speak for myself, but as much as I love and have a perpetual longing for the holidays, they seem to get more frantic every year, and I have to be mindful of holding back at times to keep from compromising health, and the ability to enjoy them. This past weekend I was struck by the importance of this when Dave and I watched a short documentary on stress from National Geographic in conjunction with Stanford...

Resource: All-natural Authenticity, Rocky Plains L...

Today Dave and I found an incredible local foods supplier that is also an invaluable reminder to be ever diligent in our scrutiny of  food purchases. It’s a sorry state, but the truth is that today we cannot afford complacent trust in potentially misleading labels, even those so wholesome seeming as natural, and even organic.  For my Colorado friends, this same farm store is also a genuine gem of a resource, one...