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Barley Risotto with Mushrooms and White Beans

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There’s a Reason They Call Me Waterfall: A Pain Cave Video

Eight Years Ago Today I was a Self Defense Instructor

9 Comments 03 February 2010

Eight years ago today I was a self defense instructor, waking up after a long workshop throwing punches. I headed to my “day job” at an ad agency. I wrote things that were too dramatic, but still important. I read this stuff and cringe. But it’s important as a marker. I was a self-defense instructor and [...]

Internet Machete

Internet Machete 002: Heavenly Hots, Homemade Pizza Ovens and More

0 Comments 31 January 2010

Cutting through the jungle of the interwebs so you don’t have to. Here’s what struck my fancy over the past few days. (PS: I bookmark links I love on my StumbleUpon account. You can check ‘em out there too, though I don’t usually write full overviews there.) Food Food Recipe Redux: Heavenly Hots, 1987 – My friend Tori [...]

Dear Diary

Dear Diary 001: Golden Streets and Lemmons

7 Comments 28 January 2010

The Streets are Lined with Gold Actually, they’re not. And, for the record, it rains in Tucson during January. A lot. When you’re headed here, people who went to school here or lived here once will have you believe that every day from here until eternity is 75 and sunny. To be certain, there are days that shine [...]

Featured, Photos

Photo Essay: Tucson Week Three

6 Comments 26 January 2010

It’s hard to believe it’s been three weeks. To be completely honest, I haven’t missed a thing (I kind of expected to by now). Not even the cats. (Thomas, cover Uci’s ears.) We got weather last week. A proper desert storm with rattling windows and torrential downpour and a snow level dropping to less than 4,000 feet. Miraculously, [...]

Reflection, Running

We used to race from the gut.

11 Comments 25 January 2010

We used to race from the gut. At least that’s how it seemed. We didn’t know about macronutrients or sports nutrition or myofascial release. We didn’t get massages or wear compression tights to bed or have fancy tools to measure our output. We had a coach. His name was Storksen. He yelled at us while hanging out [...]

Food

Maynard’s Kitchen: Tucson Food Orgasm

7 Comments 22 January 2010

About a week after I arrived in Tucson, several friends forwarded me this New York Times article: “36 Hours in Tucson“. What luck! What timing! Our days here are mostly filled with work and riding and eating, a little culture never hurt anybody so I packed up my favorite only boyfriend and headed downtown for some [...]

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A Video Answer to the “How is Tucson?” Question

Added on 05 January 2010

Video Playlist

The house is quiet. Two owls live in the tree outside. A gang of coyotes are throwing a wild party somewhere out in that blackness. The roads are long and sunny and swooping and fast. Today during a 2.5 hour ride I hit two National Parks. My buddy Michael Longmire is here and his wheel is [...]