A while back, my sister, Renee, told me about a company called Hungry Harvest. Now my sister is not just any sister 🙂 She is a legit authority on local eating and food sustainability issues and literally wrote the book on eating local in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Over the years, she and I have…
Month: December 2018
Happy Birthday to Me: Five Days of Workouts during Birthday Week
“…this year, I did a pretty good job incorporating fitness all birthday-week long.” My birthday was a few days ago. If you believe what horoscopes say, I play pretty true to the definition of a Sagittarius: curious, energetic, philosophic and (mostly) extroverted with a tendency toward excess. Never is this more on display than my…
Our Gray IKEA Kitchen Reno
I titled this post simply because I think a lot of people are looking for examples of IKEA kitchen remodels. At least that’s what I was looking for when I was doing this project, but I couldn’t find too many examples. So I’m adding one to the ether 🙂 Our remodel is about one year old. The…
The Joys of Small Scale Entertaining
It’s really hard for me to throw a small get together these days. We have a big group of close friends. This includes friends from grade school, high school, college and two handfuls of great “work” friends acquired during professional life…plus everyone’s significant others…plus their kids in many instances. Even our family-only gatherings (not counting…
Favorite Workout of the Week: Super Tabata with Ranier Pollard
I managed to squeeze in a few PopSugar Fitness morning workouts this week. The one that was the most fun was this 30-minute “super Tabata” workout with Ranier Pollard. Tabata is a form of high intensity interval training – or HIIT – that revolves around bursts of all out hard work followed by a short…