So I bought this book about farts for my sister.  It’s got a little battery-operated box on it that contains ten fart sounds.  She’s a full-grown woman, but has this really infantile love of farts which I’ve never understood, but lovingly endured.  I AM TOO MATURE FOR THAT!!  But then, I was listening to aforementioned [...]

There comes a time when one has to totally fess up.  Especially when one has written a book about macrobiotics and when one thinks one is supposed to follow a certain diet as perfectly as one fantasizes one should.  OH WOE IS ONE! 
I’ve been drinking coffee this week.  I really, really hate to admit [...]

My back went out this week.  I feel like an old man, saying that.  "OY…MY ACHING BACK!!!" 
I was at the gym, lifting some free weights–like the total jock that I am–and I thought I would just do a little multi-tasking.  So I set my iPhone down between my thighs, on the bench, and continued to [...]

However, by cutting out meat, you are taking a lot of the yang out of your diet. Remember, meat, salty cheese, baked flour and salt are all really yang. That leaves you messing around on the yin sides of things: sugar, fruit, white flour, soy “milks” and “ice creams”, chocolate, and if you’re a partier, alcohol and drugs. Without the yang, and with too much yin, vegans can get weak, anemic, depressed and isolated. Not everyone, but some.

That the economy is tanking.

I’ve been swimming lately in the Pacific ocean.  Even writing those words, I sigh…

My friend Lou and I go down to the beach a couple of times each week.  When we get there, we talk on the sand for a while, downloading our respective days, and then one of us says [...]

Sounding like a weird cat lady… I love cats!  They’re just so cool!  I remember having an argument with a dog person once (and I like dogs, but I’m just not a dog person, per se), and in defense of the superior feline, I challenged: “What could be better?  A cat is like a furry [...]

So I’m just sitting in my apartment, minding my own business when a “Jessica!” comes from outside in the garden.  It’s dark, so I can’t see who it is very well, but when I open the door, I am greeted by nothing less than a macro god.

He’d be incredibly embarrassed to know that I’ve written [...]

I’ve been avoiding you. I’m sorry.

It just didn’t seem like I had much to say this summer, between double espressos and white pasta dishes. My mind was racing a hundred miles an hour, dashing from irritation to resentment. And when the intensity faded and the race track cleared, I was left with [...]

What a strange time it is. For me, at least.

Although I keep checking in with other people, and it seems that everyone has a particular set of neuroses floating around in their heads these days: I’ll say to a friend: “You know, I’m totally weirded out about the price of oil, people starving, global warming, [...]

It’s been a big week.

My mother died on Thursday.

I don’t know how to write that sentence without dropping it on your foot like a brick. Not that you knew my mother, but no matter how you slice it, mothers are a big deal, and death is pretty huge itself. In fact, of all [...]