the bitch is back

After not drinking at all -- not even tasting and spitting -- since New Year's Eve, I caved. Can you really blame me? I...

in sactown

This week, my travels have brought me to Sacramento for the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. Confession: I don't associate Sacramento...

a kick-ass roasted chicken

Confession: Because I was vegetarian for a good portion of my life, I never really learned how to cook meat. (Slicing Spam and throwing...

goals for gluttony

It's early in the training cycle. And while I'm doing more swimming than I've ever done in my life, my bike trainer sessions have...

ouch

Because this city has been completely overtaken by this stuff all weekend ... ... I thought I'd play it safe and not get beat...

rivalry

It's not easy being a California girl in Hawkville, especially with the NFC Championship game coming up Sunday. I got booed...

return to running

Good news: Mari seems to be feeling better and is no longer trying to pee every five minutes. Also, I ran this morning for the first...

poor sad kitty

A sentence I never in my life thought I would write: I am sitting here in my bathrobe, eating chocolate and waiting for my cat to...

hello from the polar vortex

I'm in Minneapolis for work right now. Some random thoughts on this travel experience: It's really dumb to go to Minnesota...

bike love

Since it was sunny today -- and you never, ever want to let daylight go to waste here in Seattle -- Muppet and I ventured outside...

the wagon

I'm telling everyone because the more people I tell, the more real it is: Folks, I'm doing Sober January. Dialing it back was...

the great swimsuit debate

Because I am a very serious triathlete, I have been known to argue with Coach Mark about -- wait for it -- fashion. Specifically,...

who woulda thunk

We have this dumb joke that we do when we've had a little too much to drink. It involves writing Facebook posts to our future selves,...