Homemade Hummus — Garlic & Black Pepper

Hello all! Hoping you all had a lovely weekend, full of good food and great people — I know mine was. In honor of the Oil of the Week (Black Pepper / Black Pepper Vitality), I decided to mix up some hummus this weekend with the always flavorful oil! Here's my favorite balance: 1 can …

Loving People & Living as an Introvert

  I realized my introversion when I was 13. Up until that point I had always thought introvert = quiet and extrovert = loud, so I had automatically thrown myself into the latter category and not thought much about it. As a homeschooler, I never wanted for time alone before that point, so I had …

Weight Lifting & Ice Cream

Health is a really loaded word. Every month... day... week... hour, there seems to be a new diet fad, nutritional x y z, weight loss program, or magical corset that is supposed to make you perfectly healthy, wealthy, and wise, are for $99.99 plus tax and shipping! Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram are particularly infamous for …

Cheese Graters & Communication

*huff* *puff* *sigh* *grunt* He stands next to me, grating cheese for our lunch while I slice some meat and veggies for our sandwiches. He worked for about 2 hours earlier that day removing cabinetry, but other than that he's been reading, and I don't understand why, oh why, is it so hard to grate some …

Making Time for Reading

Since when did reading make me lazy? According to Pew Research Center, only about 72% of US adults read a book in any format in the last year. It averages out to about 12 books per American adult p… Source: Making Time for Reading

Making Time for Reading

Since when did reading make me lazy? According to Pew Research Center, only about 72% of US adults read a book in any format in the last year. It averages out to about 12 books per American adult per month, but before you get excited, that's the mean — the median number was only 4. 4 …