My father-in-law recently sent me this link to an article called Toe Huggers. It’s a tad more involved than my previous post on Toe Shoes, but addresses the same issue — is there anything to this idea of running barefoot (or virtually barefoot?). It also calls out Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, about Mexico’s Tarahumara [...]
They’re not actually called toe shoes, but rather Vibram Five Fingers–but toe shoes is what I’m calling them… and they’re pretty neat. I first heard of them from a trainer in New York and then forgot about them in the whirlwind that is my life. I was recently reminded of them in Vancouver, though, and ordered [...]
Target is funny: They actually switch up their inventory with some frequency. So, for a while, I could find organic chicken. But now I can only find “natural” chicken (which I assume is the same in concept, but just not certified organic). And just about every week since I’ve moved here, I’ve been buying McCann’s [...]
A friend recently told me about an iPhone app which takes your crappy photos (sorry, but the quality of photos on the iPhone are mediocre at best) and make them artisitic, nostalgic, and basically kickass. Which is great for me, because I’m always forgetting my camera and snapping photos with my iPhone. I’ve also been [...]
As I was researching a piece on burgers, I had occasion to google the Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop, aka “The Doodle,” a New Haven institution, home to the fried donut and the Doodle challenge–only to find out that it’s been closed. It seems there’s a campaign to save the Doodle, so I’m doing my part [...]
I’ve been pretty happy with Delta lately. For one, the airline gave me a 10,000 MQM mile gift because the economy is in the… well, let’s just say people are not traveling as much this year. More recently, I got a pamphlet in the mail explaining the new benefits of the merged Delta-Northwest program: There’s a [...]
I’ve had my Dell XPS for a little while now–close to two years, perhaps?–and it’s served me well: It’s small, it’s stylish (red!), it’s speedy. But, as I consider a road trip on two wheels instead of four, from Vancouver to Seattle, with a detour to Whidbey Island, I’m looking for something even smaller. I [...]
There are some vacations I’m never going to take with my husband–even if he is one of my favorite travel companions (he drives, pays for dinner, and is an even better bed companion than Charlie). And a yoga retreat is one of those trips. My friend and I have been plotting and scheming and trying to [...]
Oh the joy of real, cane sugar coca-cola. As summer heats up, there’s nothing like a crisp coke in a glass bottle. See my most recent Tasting Table piece on Mexican coke here and check out my list of other natural sugar sodas worth trying:
Jones Pure Cane Soda Launched in 1996 with six flavors of pure cane soda, [...]
I’m not one for sodas, really. I grew up in a household where sugar cereal, chewing gum, and soda were not everyday items. Some of them were flat out verboten; others were a rare treat. Soda was one of the latter and, it has to be said, my favorite part about drinking coke was not actually [...]