I recently had the joy and honor of being included in a Songwriters in the Round evening at 503 Uncorked in Sherwood, Oregon. The format was unlike anything I had done before. Three songwriters shared the stage and sang their…

Being a woman in 2022 - even stating that I am one without including a qualifier - is fraught. Like most of us, I could not have foreseen the day in America when to say "I am a woman" could…

I know, nice life for a "refugee." But still, I'd rather be at home and back in my studio! Every day from our fourth story hotel room (which for some reason keeps making me dizzy), this is what I see:

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The AIP diet from my hotel room goes on. I can't do the diet properly from here. I'm supposed to be eating kidney and liver and other "offal," but I need an actual kitchen to prepare those things right, and…

One week later, my stalwart friends trekked back out to the boat on the hillside. We corrected all the mistakes from last time, but got heaping plates full of new lessons in take 2. I'll do what I can with…

So a couple things about the AIP diet that make it impossible for me to eat out -- no vegetable/seed oils allowed, and no pepper or spices. I have found one amazing restaurant near the hotel (El Ranchero)…

Lots of planning culminated in a video shoot yesterday that was still short on planning. Only way to truly learn what you don't know is to try something and fail! Racking up the lessons learned. While most of yesterday's lessons…

Today I got to enjoy my Christmas present to myself - this facial. It had been rescheduled due to a large hematoma from my sweet, precious wild child accidentally sinking her tooth into my head! Maybe some video from this…

The heaviest ice storm in at least many decades hit the Willamette Valley in February 2021. My parents remember having ice storms most years. Said the ice would cull the trees' branches, but without any heavy ice in so long…

Welcoming yam into my meal! This should give me some energy.

Two days in on keto, and I am feeling exhausted. I stepped on the scale and found I've dropped 9 pounds! I have been trying to gain weight, not lose it! I'm getting myself some blueberries!!

This was amazing!! I will definitely make it again! Thank you, Castaway Kitchen!

OK, so yeah, it actually looks yummy. But I also want a carb!! 😫 

...and one ravenous bite after the next later: That was so good, I didn’t want it to end! After each bite, I gave thanks that there…

I set out to research the “True Cellular Detox” supplements that my newer doctor (let’s call him Dr. Detox) had recommended for me, but all I can find online are advertisements on dozens of independent alternative doctors’ websites…

I started seeing another doctor in December, determined that 2021 would be the year I finally get a handle on my chronic pain. A half-dozen vials of my deep burgundy blood were sent to the lab and a week later…

In Brave New World, people do not read books. Is it because they have been forbidden?; or simply b/c books can't compete with the all-sense-gratifying ("sensorious"?) entertainment of that world? Movies there are posh events held in pristine, surround-vision theaters…