I am sad today. I think I am going to have to bid farewell to a couple of my favourite food friends. Sigh. As my faithful readers know, I've been dealing with ulcerative colitis since the mid-eighties. It comes and goes, based on the amount of stress in my life and how good I am … Continue reading Dairy Dolour
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Be Serious or Be Sick
As my faithful readers know, I've been struggling with an auto-immune disease (ulcerative colitis) for many years. After a very serious flareup in 2009, I started following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, an early version of Paleo. I described my successes and failures almost exactly a year ago, and here I am again, in almost exactly … Continue reading Be Serious or Be Sick
Learning and Health – #BlogElul 14 and 15
As I was planning this series of blog posts about Elul, following Rabbi Phyllis Sommer's #BlogElul system that you see here on the left, I knew I couldn't write number 14 on Shabbat, so I figured I'd write it after Shabbat was out. But by then, of course, it would be the 15th of Elul, … Continue reading Learning and Health – #BlogElul 14 and 15
This Kosher Paleo Steer Has Sharp Horns
Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool ... loving both of you is breaking all the rules ... remember that song? It's how I feel when I think about keeping kosher, and keeping paleo. Mary McGregor sang about a woman who loves two men at the same time, for the different things they … Continue reading This Kosher Paleo Steer Has Sharp Horns
A New Year
Happy New Year to all my friends and readers, which are probably completely overlapping sets. Here's wishing everyone a healthy, happy, successful 2012, in which you conquer your Lizard Brain, achieve wonderful things, and the Maya calendar quietly rolls over. For myself, I've just come out of a nasty colitis flareup, and I need to … Continue reading A New Year