Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
I eat a lot of food, roughly four pounds each day. What do I consider to be food? Fruits, leafy and root vegetables, whole grains, beans and other legumes. I eat lots of spices but little salt. Maybe one or two ounces of nuts and half an ounce of the...
It is 2009, and I work at a small company headed by a man named John Tanner. John is three months younger than me. We are 52. In October, he is out jogging on a Sunday when he suddenly falls over with a heart attack. His heart had stopped. I’m...
Many people are convinced that they don’t know how to cook. When they try, they don’t like the result, which just reinforces their conclusion that they can’t do it. I love to cook, and I love to eat my own cooking. But I don’t like to spend much time cooking,...
It is summer of 2021. Kathryn and I avoid crowds more than before Covid, and eat mostly our own cooking. I watch more television than I think is good for me. There is an ad blitz for an app called Noom, which claims to offer personalized, psychology-based weight loss. My...
We arrived at Catalina Island Tuesday morning, despite having returned to Long Beach just a few hours after leaving. A passenger had a medical emergency that led to the early return. Since Catalina is just twenty-six miles from Long Beach, it did not put us off schedule. Kathryn and I...
Let me end the suspense right now. Kathryn and I took a cruise and we did not starve. It was my first cruise and was just four nights. I was concerned about starving in the midst of plenty. Cruises are known for creating tempting arrays of food which most people...
