I grew up being called skinny. One of my friends in the eighth grade told me that I had legs like a horse – you know, knobbly kneed. My mother said I was thin. I met up with a friend this week – I hadn’t seen her since just before Christmas. She saw me and […]
Late last year, to celebrate the end of YEARS of planning and renovations in our house, I bought myself some kitchen toys – including a Vitamix. Since then I have been experimenting with it – like making the curry paste for my version of Nigel Slater’s Thai Green Curry – SO EASY! And milling my […]
On Saturday I had the opportunity to head over to 1948 London to see a screening of Town of Runners, the new documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell and released in the UK on the 20th of April (yep – Saturday – I attended one of the first screenings!) If you follow me on Twitter you […]
This weekend was fantastically uplifting for me for a number of reasons, but probably top of the list was wandering down the street to see Town of Runners, the documentary film about the town of Bekoji in Ethiopia. I will do a separate post on the film, what it said to me, and WHY YOU […]
This post is a round up of what the past four weeks of eating gluten free have been like for me – and of the consequences of eating gluten when I have more or less been clean, as a means of seeing how my body reacts to it. It is a post where I describe […]
We just spent two weeks in Florida, on our annual visit to family, combined with a bit of swim, bike and run. When we finished training we would talk – you know, triathlon talk – things like “how do you feel, how do your legs feel, how does being back on the road feel” – […]