Author name: judyann dutcher

Season Bookends

I rode my bike today on the way to the gym. A first, and a long time coming since I’ve been going to this gym for almost a year. (Note: a year? How did that happen?) With Veteran’s Day, the uni is closed but the gym is open. I rode to the gym, took a […]

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Nutrition as Religion

My acupuncturist said I should go on the Gerson diet. I rolled my eyes. After being vegan for 5 years and countless vegetarian years, I am exhausted of food restrictions. DH even rejected the Gerson diet when he sought alternative cancer treatments. Gerson therapy is a form of alternative cancer treatment involving coffee enemas, supplements,

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Doctors 9 through 11

the doctors as ponies by_lissy_strata Last year, my kids became obsessed with Dr. Who, the long-running BBC science fiction TV show. Their friends were all watching the show and pressured my kids into watching it too. They binge-watched during the first few weeks of summer and emerged complete Whovians. Because I knew the time commitment

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Good Cheese

Son asked me for some advice: I went to make nachos but there was only good cheese in the refrigerator. I felt bad that I was using expensive cheese for my nachos. What should I use instead?” I answered: Life is too short not to have good cheese.” Five days later, Daughter is standing in

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