Why I Make My Bed Every Day
Despite the best efforts of my mother, my entire life I refused to make my bed; until now. So what changed? Did I just magically mature into a hyper-organized neat…
Why I Tell People Carnivore Is Not A Weight Loss Diet (And 5 Ways You Can Use It To Lose Fat)
Every time I tell someone that carnivore isn’t a weight loss diet I get a dozen people telling me how wrong I am. So let me explain. Can you lose…
So Now I’m Making High Meat
How far do you have to go before you ask, have I gone too far? Does making high meat in your Ambulance count as too far? Nah, who am I…
Hurtful, Hard Lessons Are A Good Thing
It’s okay to have bad things happen in life. To have hard lessons learned. To be steam-rolled a few times, even dozens of times. We often under-estimate how these are…
Will Eating Raw Meat Make You Sick?
As a raw carnivore the most common question I get asked is whether eating raw meat will make you sick. People immediately assume I’m at high risk of food-borne illnesses…
Silence is nice.
Betty White was in my dreams last night. I was helping her get to the doctor’s office, which then turned into a dental office. And the man slotted to clean…
Doing Things For Yourself
Two nights in a row I’ve dreamt that I discovered the answer. “The answer to what?” my boyfriend asked me. “The answer to everything,” I tell him. I’ve been writing…
Change Doesn’t Happen By Accident
Who are you? Who do you tell people you are? Because we all do it, we describe ourselves to the people we meet. We reinforce an idea of who we…
Starting Over: The Story of My Life
I’ve been trying to setup an email newsletter for a full week; I keep thinking it shouldn’t be this hard((I literally work for an email marketing company and it’s still…
Wearing Less and Showing More
I’ve been living in southern California for about a year, and I find it striking how few real female bodies I see. Real female bodies showing their flaws and their…
My Thoughts on Eating Raw Meat
“Eating raw meat? Like, uncooked?!” That’s usually the first thing people say to me when I tell them I eat raw meat. That I eat only raw meat. Yes Barbara,…
Learning to Surf: Nature Doesn’t Give a Fuck
I’m learning to surf. It’s a long-game for me. I don’t have a surf board yet. Two years of living in Southern California and this spring I realized it’s time….
What Sleeping On The Floor Has Taught Me
I’ve spent a solid portion of my life crafting the ideal sleeping environment. A plush pillow top mattress with organic cotton, merino wool, and down toppers. Only the most luxurious…
When Loneliness Is Good
Of course I still strongly dislike the feeling of loneliness; but it can only be a torture when I give it power to do so. […] you only need to feel lonely for as long as you allow yourself to be alone.
“No Take Backs!” or Can We Undo a Mistake?
When I was a kid, we played tag and liked to use the “no tag backs” rule; which means you couldn’t get tagged then tag that person right back. You…
Drown Yourself In Positivity to Get Unstuck
I’m not just a little happy. I’m enthusiastic. I laugh louder than I should. I smile bigger than I need to. I let my eyes light up and get big like saucers (or I imagine they do!). When I’m at the gym I tell myself “this is easy” with every rep; especially the impossible ones. I do this because I want to pull others into my positive orbit.
Why I Stopped Cooking My Meat And Adopted The Raw Carnivore Diet
Just going on the carnivore diet was a life saver for me; but I’m not perfect yet. With carnivore I was able to stop leaky gut flare-ups, stop the overwhelming…
4 Years of Eating Only Meat on the Carnivore Diet
So much has changed in 4 years! I previously explained why I became a carnivore, but haven’t done a great job of writing periodic updates during that time. The way…
Why Do I Follow the Carnivore Diet?
4 years of the carnivore diet, read the update here. Fair warning, this is long. There is no TL;DR version. I’d rather be dead from eating only meat than be…
New Playable Character
You can choose to keep playing the same character that you started out with from the beginning.