Chris Kresser is a licensed acupuncturist and practitioner of integrative medicine. From his site: How do I work with patients? I am primarily a “health detective”. I help people struggling with chronic, complex illnesses that haven’t been able to find help anywhere else. Like all detectives, I use a variety of tools in my investigations, including…
Month: November 2011
Feel Good Friday 111111
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! It’s a lucky day, right? 11-11-11! QT with my Houston cousins Suede protector! I tweeted asking for recs and found out there are suede…
Knitta Shades
I once had a badass pair of red sunglasses. I privately considered them my Stunna Shades. One sunny day while I was living in LA, I parked my little red Hyundai Tiburon by the Santa Monica pier, got outta the car in my red Stunna Shades, and began to walk to the beach. A man…
Austin: Olive & June to Fill El Arbol Void
With the sad news of El Arbol‘s closing, everyone wondered what would happen to the new Brykerwoods hotspot … well, wait no longer! Acclaimed Chef Shawn Cirkiel of parkside and backspace will open a Southern Italian restaurant called Olive & June next spring. Olive & June is named for Chef Shawn Cirkiel’s grandmother and his wife’s grandmother…
Feel Good Friday 110411
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Another week in which I get to wear both my gold leather pants AND flyaway cheerleader skirt? Can’t be beat! Spicy margaritas, jorts, pre-…
Lil Holiday Comforts
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Starbucks + Opportunity Finance Network
I recently participated in a conference call with BlogHer, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, and Starbucks Global Chief Marketing Officer Annie Young-Scrivner about their new Create Jobs for USA initiative that launched yesterday. You buy this (very cute) wristband for $5 and it’s all donated to a fund at the Opportunity Finance Network for capital grants to local…
Three Things I’ve Learned Without a Real Kitchen
1. You can cook almost anything in a toaster oven. Hard-boiled eggs? Steak? Spaghetti squash? If you can make it fit, it will cook. 2. You can heat almost anything in a coffee pot. Cold-brew coffee? Tomato soup? Steamy. 3. I will never complain about unloading or loading the dishwasher again. Washing each dish by…