Balanced Monday: Finding the tipsy point
A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. Today we'll add a challenge that lets you find your personal tipping point: balancing your exercise with dietary considerations.
All Together Now: Anthropology of Eating
The social side of cooking and eating. How all the little customs and rituals we create can make each meal a Way to reinforce our connections to each other. And to the food we eat for nourishment and pleasure.
Slower Sunday: Looking marvelous
Even when they don't feel that Way. So let's thank the crocuses for being real troopers. Even when the sky's gray and the air's freezing. And nothing else reminds you of spring. Here they are. Shivering, but looking marvelous. Press Play.
Slower Sunday: Lucky
Botanists say only one in 10,000 shamrocks has four leaves. So, on average, you'd have to look at 10,000 of these before you're likely to find one. So if you do see one, you beat the odds. Press Play. You might get lucky.
Slower Sunday: Monkey Do
Why is this so amazing even after you see it a hundred times every time you take a 20-minute walk in the rainforest? Press Play to see it a few times. Keep pressing if you want to go for a hundred. You might. They're just so good at what they do.
Slower Sunday: In your slippers
Step into those snowshoes. Step into those cross-country skis. Put on your slippers, Press Play and step into my tracks. Take a nice walk later.
Pear-Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Tastes and smells so good you wish you were it. Or with it. Even in a 350 F oven. Easy to make. Just 10 minutes of preparation. The hard part: waiting for it to bake while you inhale its aroma. The hardest part: waiting for it to cool before you slice it.
Sight-skiing the Tetons
In winter, it's like a beautiful science fiction version of the place you think you know. Another dimension where hiking shoes don't work. Where you need these odd-looking devices clipped to your feet to keep you from sinking into white fluff. You should try it.
Walks I Walked. And Ate. In 2012.
I read some great books and saw some terrific movies this year. But when I think about these twelve months, I think more about the awesome places I went. On foot. And great meals I walked to and from. Press Play for the highlights.