by Mir | Feb 4, 2016 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Health is overrated
It’s one of those unwritten rules—similar to how bringing an umbrella with you keeps it from raining—that if you have Something Big happening, a million other things will have to happen at the same time, because it is not enough to deal with that ONE...
by Mir | Feb 1, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons & Diabetes, Health is overrated
I’m still trying to decide if baking decadent things I cannot eat is a healthy sublimation of my sweet tooth or just a giant, masochistic flaw in my reasoning process. Best not to think about it too much, I suspect. The smoothie cleanse I mentioned last week?...
by Mir | Jan 29, 2016 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Health is overrated
So I did this weird green smoothie cleanse and lost some weight. I never know if writing about that sort of thing is interesting or boring; I mean, it’s interesting to me, I guess? Maybe not to you? I might write about it next week. It was… an adventure....
by Mir | Jan 26, 2016 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I’ve been threatening to do this for months, but I finally wrote a counterpoint piece to all of those “HOW TO MAKE SURE YOUR SCHMOOPYKINS GETS INTO HARVARD” articles. It was surprisingly cathartic. My distress over various “experts” in...
by Mir | Jan 25, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons & Diabetes
Listen, I am a person who aspires to balance. I’m not saying I’m a person who ever ACHIEVES balance, mind you, but I do aspire to it. So when I make a completely over-the-top dessert like I did last week, I try to go for something a little simpler and...
