“Nuggets!” My kid cries, bent over his screen, as if he’s been shot, heading to the bathroom. Outside, I hear my husband cough amid abundant birdsong. We have traded the mosquitos for birds. The last campsite — Yellowstone/Lewis Lake — had bodies filled with our blood. Today we awoke in Read more
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with a journalist from The Guardian about eating carnivore and a ketogenic diet. Just why would someone do it? First of all, I just want to say that I don’t believe in “mocking vegans” and mentioned this during my phone interview with the Read more
It’s amazing how easily you can make a mindset shift simply by changing the ‘o’ to an ‘e’ in the phrases: “I’ve GOT to” to “I GET to.” As ‘a glass is half empty type of person’ my entire life, I find myself needing to remember this on a daily Read more
Is it possible to stay keto-adapted on vacation? For anyone who has been eating keto, it is pure joy to come back from a vacation and still be keto-adapted. In fact, our last vacation to Costa Rica started out with great intentions, but by the end of the trip, we Read more
I can’t believe I just stumbled upon an old blog on Tumblr I had written in despair, back when we first found out Darrell had cancer. Rereading it now (Jan 2018) is surreal, transporting us back in time to when it all began (Nov 7, 2014), when our lives divided Read more
Life, as I’ve known it, is about to change. All my life, I’ve lived in the Bay Area, in California. Born in Millbrae, CA, raised in Concord–a tunnel away from San Francisco–and over two decades in Berkeley as an adult, I’ve been lucky enough to be surrounded by my entire Read more