It was love at first sight. Or at least I told myself that every time I encountered a new way of eating. This new diet, “backed by science” promised results like none other before. Yes, it had strange restrictions, but maybe this would be the one that would stick. Kind of like that new relationship you desperately want to work out so you ignore all of the red flags.
Read MoreI’d like to think the above quote embodies most of my life. Rarely, does a day provide me the exact same activities in the same order. I don’t have a designated day or time to clean my house or do my laundry. I am constantly changing up my yard full of plants, moving some here and there, adding others. If you knew me in high school you would know that I never liked wearing the same outfit more than once. Heck, before moving to Portland, my husband and I uprooted our family and moved to the United Kingdom for five years. And if you ask me to watch a movie that I have seen before, I will roll my eyes as I don’t like watching things more than once. Most of my life is full of variety, experiencing new things at every turn. I love it. It is exhilarating.
Read MoreI grew up a child of the 1980’s: Smurfs, Star Wars, playing outside all day, and fruit roll ups. I was lucky that it was normal for me to see my mom cooking a homemade meal most evenings in the kitchen. Even when I would come home late from gymnastics, we would rarely if ever, go to a drive-thru as she would have dinner waiting for me. Of course the 80’s were also categorized by casseroles and she apologizes to this day about the lack of fresh vegetables at a given meal. I reply, “Mom, it was the 80’s. No one had ever heard of kale back then.”
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