Trying to Be Healthy in a World With Stuffed-Crust Pizza

My partner knows better than anyone that if you want to see my eyes light up with a look of longing and affection, all you have to say is those beautiful, magical words: Stuffed. Crust. Pizza. As much as I love some buffalo chicken or olive pizza from my local pizza shop, sometimes you just want to feel full of grease and cheese and curl … Continue reading Trying to Be Healthy in a World With Stuffed-Crust Pizza

Book Review: 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

This is not your parent’s self-help book. Your parent’s self-help book was about Making Your Dreams Happen! and Working Until You Inevitably Achieve Your Goals! Becoming a Rich Success! and Having it All! Self-help books now are all about how it’s okay to be stumbling around blindly hating yourself. You’re not alone. You’re not the only one who can’t afford to live or has no … Continue reading Book Review: 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

Do I Need Shoes for This Meeting or Nah?

After three years with my current company, I have definitely branded myself in a few different ways around the office. Currently, I’m working on becoming the Chocolate Girl by purchasing an exorbitant amount of Lindt truffles and offering them up to (read as: forcing them on) my team during that post-lunch lull. I’m the Girl Who Goes to Lunch Super Late, as well as the … Continue reading Do I Need Shoes for This Meeting or Nah?

To Coffee or Not to Coffee? That is the Question.

And believe it or not, that is a daily question for me. As someone who insists on getting 8 hours of sleep per night, unlike most Americans, I actually don’t typically struggle in the morning without coffee. If I want something warm, I just break out the herbal tea and it’s all good. I attempt to save my coffee/house budget for those mornings where I’m … Continue reading To Coffee or Not to Coffee? That is the Question.

Why I’m Probably Not the Best Yoga Buddy

Renata doing yoga. Yes, this was as entertaining as it sounds. Last week, I found that our local farmer’s market, Duffields, has a monthly Yoga on the Farm class during the summer. Always looking for different ways to exercise that are so cool that I forget that I’m exercising (and hoping that Yoga on the Farm involved doing yoga with goats), I texted my best … Continue reading Why I’m Probably Not the Best Yoga Buddy