In fairness to the handful of you who venture to read this blog on occasion, I have in the past made a promise to forewarn you if I’m going to hurl a paragraph or two of unsolicited advice at your eyeballs, urging you to eat better and think twice about what you are putting into your bodies. Well folks, the day has come, on a Monday no less. This week we’re going to pump the brakes a bit, temporarily put away our Spaghetti Carbonara and Cheeseburger Spring Rolls recipes and focus on the right kind of fuel to best energize the magical machines we’ve all been gifted as living, breathing humans on the planet Earth. There will be plenty of time to ...

Dear Mama, Happy Mother's Day! While I am sad to not be with you today, I am hoping this message will reach you out on the beautiful rivers of Missouri, or wherever your travels have taken you by now. To show my appreciation this year for all that you do, here is a list of a mere twenty things, out of the gazillion, that you have done to make my life special. Dear Mama, thank you for... ...letting me be a bun in your oven. It is perhaps an odd way to phrase it, but as I continue to move through life, I am better able to truly appreciate what a huge head start towards living a happy and fulfilling life I had having been born your son. There are ...