Over four months ago, at the end of August, I began doing intermittent fasting. This involved a significant but quite manageable adjustment to my eating schedule. Instead of eating at all hours…
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Day 136: A Winter Wonderland of Leaves
Okay, so maybe we Californians at coastal altitudes do not get to experience those winters that are the mythical subject of so many Holiday songs. The key missing ingredient, of course, is…
Day 117: Cereal of the Gods!
I have always been a big cereal fan. Ever since I was a child, I have associated cereal with comfort food… and with home. Up until recently, my wife liked to joke…
Day 100: Sugar Free Me… Well, Almost
So about a month ago I started my sugar-free experiment: one Sunday I stopped eating cereal, grains, breads, and processed sugar. I did this in conjunction with my intermittent fasting to make…
Day 98: It’s All About Attitude
I have heard Tony Robbins (I think) say, “Success Leaves Clues.” Well, I heard that somewhere, and very likely Tony Robbins said it, if not many others. To me, this concept means…
Day 81: How Dissatisfaction, Food Poisoning, and a TV Show Brought Me to Intermittent Fasting
So I have been doing Intermittent Fasting for over seven weeks now, and as you might guess from the rhyme I wrote about it a few days ago, I couldn’t be happier. …
Day 79: Why I Love Intermittent Fasting (in Rhyme!)
Okay, so keeping with the recent rhymes I’ve been doing, I’m going to write a rhyme about why I love intermittent fasting. First a little background: I “discovered” Intermittent Fasting a few…
Day 55: Morning Glow and the Sweet Timelessness of Nature
I often go jogging on weekend mornings with my good friend Dave. A couple of Sunday mornings ago, I was at William Pond Park, a few miles away from where I live…
Yosemite: the Sequel!
Thirty years ago, I went backpacking in Yosemite. I was seven years old. Each year at my school in Pleasant Hill, California, we went on a week-long camping trip. That year we…
My Magical, Difficult Backpacking Trip in Yosemite
Introductory Note: I wrote this a week ago but for some reason didn’t post until now. Probably was being perfectionistic, trying to “get it right.” That’s the irony of having a profoundly…