I’m spending time this fall recommitting to my favorite healthy living habits. Believe it or not, I originally started this blog to talk about exercise, food, and fitness lifestyle topics. Ergo “cold pressed.” Like the juice… or growing up in the northern Midwest. This fall, I’m working on recommitting to the whole health shebang, so… Continue reading fit fridays | playlists
Month: August 2015
a meditation on insignificance
We live in such a small time. Who is to say what parts of our current history will look like a flash in the pan? A two hundred year power is the kind of thing they hardly bother teaching to you. A century ago we were only just awaking to news of the Great War.… Continue reading a meditation on insignificance
a better morning
This is not “5 Morning Habits of the Richest, Happiest, Best, Fittest, Longest Living People Ever.” Just absolutely not that. This is more “5 Things I Sometimes Do That Makes My Morning Slightly Better.” Put your phone somewhere that isn’t your bed. (But set your alarm as late as possible.) Eat something delicious for breakfast… Continue reading a better morning
poetry dose | six
I first loved a Ted Kooser poem (Boarding House) in high school. I fell back in love with Kooser when catching up on Writer’s Almanac on a plane this weekend and heard this poem featured. Splitting An Order – Ted Kooser I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half, maybe an… Continue reading poetry dose | six
hello, friends
Many new visitors popped over here this week. So, welcome! It’s been a bit quiet around these parts for the last week — I’m happily ensconced at my parents’ lake house, where the Internet was spotty over the weekend and I lacked a laptop charger for days. And the view has been a bit distracting,… Continue reading hello, friends
poetry dose | five
Tonight I was at Theology on Tap, and one of the speakers asked some questions I didn’t feel like answering. I don’t want to answer them now either. So I’m sharing them with you. And making it my delayed poetry dose for the week — I think that “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver (a perennial classic… Continue reading poetry dose | five
first fig
First Fig – Edna St. Vincent Millay My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light. Not the poetry dose for the week. Just how I am feeling. Tired. Burnt out. Emotionally wimpy. My extroverted self is even… Continue reading first fig
