Hi everyone! How’s your day going? Mine started with a success story…. I completed my first REAL push-up!!
I know, I know, for many of you this is no big feat, but I’ve never been one to have very strong arms. I have literally been doing “girl” (on your knees) push-ups my entire life. However, after [...]
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Happy Holidays, everyone!! Like many of you, I took off quite a few days from blogging – I haven’t put up a post since the Vegan Biscuits and Gravy one over a week ago!! – but I enjoyed every minute of the time off. Blogging is good fun, but so is disconnecting yourself from all [...]
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After squeezing in an hour of yoga and 30 minutes on the treadmill on Sunday morning, I rushed home for my second time playing hostess at a vegan brunch! This time, we had both my parents and sister, as well as Mike’s parents and grandmother over, so we had a good sized crowd!
To snack on [...]
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So, I did it!!!!
I successfully made my own batch of Kombucha!
You can read about the first steps I took in these posts here and here…..
Before taking the final step, I gathered my materials:
pH test strips
and the vat of Kombucha that I’ve been brewing for about 2 weeks
Taking a clean straw, I slipped the straw down [...]
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A few days ago, I posted a Q & A about myself – and one of the questions was about what I have gained from having my blog. In addition to the reasons I wrote in that post, today I was thinking more specifically, about the larger dietary changes that I have made since [...]
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Hello there, hope you had a wonderful day! After having a stressful day at work yesterday I was kinda hoping for a bit of a reprieve today, but alas I did not have such luck. It was an even crazier day than yesterday!!! Ahhh…. so it goes.
In the end it worked out for my student [...]
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Do you ever have dreams, thoughts, or “feelings” that almost seem to predict what kind of day you will have? Oddly enough, this has happened to me a lot recently. Over the weekend I had a nightmare that was eerily similar to a situation that happened at work on Monday at School #2… and today [...]
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Hello there!
So, am I the only one eating copious amounts of spaghetti squash, or is it just me?!? I’ve been enjoying this cheap, healthy, and delicious seasonal delight with various toppings. I’ve been on a huge baking kick recently, but ironically I haven’t been as creative with the rest of my meals. Almost all of [...]
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Hi friends! How have you been? Last time we spoke I left you with my vegan snickerdoodles and vegan chocolate chip brownie cake recipes…. hope you liked them! If you get a chance to make either recipe, I’d love to hear about it!
Today, however, I don’t have any new recipes for you (that [...]
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Hi there! I’m blogging away in the middle of Chicago’s first snowstorm. I couldn’t believe it when everywhere in America – including TEXAS, of all places – got snow last week, but us. Typically, the Windy City is one of the whitest cities around. But, it started snowing here on Tuesday and hasn’t stopped since!
I [...]
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I'm a school social worker who is also a newlywed (and had a Big Fat Greek Wedding, no less!) living in Chicago. I am starting this blog to talk about the training process I will go through to prepare for the Chicago Marathon, while also raising awareness for Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program.
