Author Archive: greenhedonist
Yum: Living Well as a Spiritual Act
I’d been trying to make a plan to get back to a good, balanced place this summer, after a chaotic spring that left me wanting to crawl into bed and stay there for a few months. Part of the plan is to build more quiet time into my life, and so when I received the […]
Finding Your Formula: A + B + C = Yeah
Life is never predictable. Some days are fantastic, but others need a little bit of tweaking to make them feel great by the time they’re done. I’m coming to see these little adjustments as a series of fun games and formulas. The games I’ll address another time, but essentially they function like any game does: […]
You Get the Dog You Need
Early morning here at our house, and our two dogs are up and around, campaigning quietly but firmly for breakfast at 6:00am. They like to play the staring game at this hour. Having learned that being loud or obnoxious will elicit an angry response, they’ve gone the passive route, and will simply come close and […]
Um, No, Hedonists Don’t Have to be Rich
A friend emailed me today to say how much she was enjoying reading the blog posts, and to congratulate me on “doing so well you can afford this lifestyle.” Reading those words, I took a long look around the room. Dog is snoring in the bean bag chair, my side table is a big black […]
Real Food Road Trip
The Perennial Plate crew has wrapped up its second season, a year-long adventure across America dubbed the “Real Food Road Trip.” In this online weekly documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating, they recorded 7 Terabytes of footage, travelled 23,000 miles across 42 states and made 50 short films about good food (one […]
Behold the Wooden Lightbulb
I am always finding groovy things on Grist.org’s Grist List, but I saw this and at first thought it was a joke, poking fun at those of us who get a little visceral thrill out of buying energy-efficient lighting. Indeed, it’s really a light fixture, and a work of art at that. Check it out […]
Restaurant Review: How do we get more restaurants like Lucky Pie?
I didn’t think I could top breakfast at Snooze (at least not in the same weekend) but as it happens, I stumbled over Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House in Denver yesterday, and now I’m ready to move in right above them. Okay, I’d settle for walking distance. We’d been craving pizza and good beer, […]
Sneaking onto the Smoothie Bandwagon
I usually field at least three recommendations a week to start drinking green smoothies. Friends badger me, my healthier clients drop subtle hints, and they’re all over the news. The benefits are generally peppered with “antis” — anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-diabetic, antioxidant. It’s always sounded like I’d be starting my day at war, slouching into […]
It’s All About the Delight
There’s a breakfast place called Snooze that’s so good I can’t bring myself to put down my fork. Seriously, I want to put it down, but it seems to be attached to my right hand, so I find myself reaching for my coffee with my left hand instead. I just don’t want to miss anything. […]
The Sad End and the Happy Beginning
I love tomatoes. But not those coral-pink, mealy, gross, taste-free tomatoes you usually find in the produce section at the grocery. REAL tomatoes, the kind that come out of a garden and not out of a styrofoam tray or a clamshell package. I have grown tomatoes now for several years just because eating a just-picked […]
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