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 fart-box in my room, and–overhearing them–my Stepfather got curious, and little did I know that he too had the fart button to be pressed.  So I must give the book to him, thereby re-gifting before even gifting.

So it is with my blog this week.  I have blogged for another site and I am sending you all there as a sort of re-blogging.  It’s actually a really beautiful site, which I highly recommend… agrainaday.com 

So consider yourself lucky to not be receiving a fart book!

Happy Holidays,

Jessica

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 [...]

Okay.  I’m really excited about this because I don’t consider myself the best cook in the world and it’s a rare day I think one of my original recipes is worth repeating, SO PAY ATTENTION:
Mysteriously Good Noodle Dish
1/2 package whole wheat spaghetti noodles
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 collard greens, washed sliced with spine chopped into thin [...]

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 [...]

As you watch the Dow drop like a lead weight, do you expand or contract?  I mean it: upon hearing that the world is flying even more rapidly to Hell in a cute little handbasket, does your body relax or get tense?

It’s a very important question.

Crisis is yangizing.  Which means contracting.  When you hear that [...]

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 [...]

After my book came out, I received an email from a woman named Janice Taylor.  She had just written a book called Our Lady of Weight Loss and it was about to be published by Penguin as well.  In her email, Janice was looking for advice on promoting her books, tips on what to do, [...]

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 [...]