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…
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…
Visiting Loudoun County, DC’s Wine Country
I recently took a fabulous trip to Loudoun [pronounce Lough-done] County, Virginia, otherwise known as DC’s Wine Country (teaser was here). Three days of wining and dining made for one very happy traveler! I’ll let the pictures speak for the highlights of the trip. [slideshow] Resources: Lansdowne Resort – Big, lush resort property with nice rooms,…
Teaser: Get Lost in Loudoun
I mentioned in Feel Good Friday that I went off on a press trip, to Loudoun County, Virginia. While I work on compiling all the photos and notes from the trip, you can check out the fun new web show Loudoun produced called Get Lost in Loudoun. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lflMrIZeHb0] It’s funny, the majority of the…