Dear Friends: I am on a mission to convince my coworkers that healthy eating is neither scary nor depressing. My main target is Micci, who snacks on miniature candy bars, and exhibits a strange fascination with the Field Roast sandwich I eat every day. No matter how often I tell her that vegan grain meat is nothing to be afraid ...

Oh, hey. I’ve been meaning to mention this, but things have been crazy around here. I’ll try to keep it short. See ‘The Fog of War‘. Here are the 11 lessons. I scribbled them down in the dark of the Lagoon Theatre just for you. Well, me. But I’m in a sharing mood. Empathize with your enemy. Rationality will not ...

OK! I take a lot of shit for my paranoid fears. I think I’ve mentioned here before that now that fear #1 has come to pass (losing my job), the second on the list had taken its place: getting pregnant. See, I had this theory that I was so damn fertile that the laws of physics and birth control were ...

Dear Friends, I made a hat! For Alex, because he’s going to Canada. Being from Miami, he’s woefully hatless and unprepared, just like when he arrived in Minneapolis wearing only Bermuda shorts and Oakleys. Admire it, please. It’s not really that green-and-pink in person, or as pointy. It’s cute, I swear. Unlike the scarves I made, which when people inquire ...