Today's Observations I recently participated in a marketing meeting at an organization I'm involved with.  To get at our core message, we asked ourselves these questions - What is the promise? and What are the reasons to believe that promise? Great questions. I was thinking about these questions as they relate to raw foods.  What is the promise of raw foods? And what are...

Today's Observations My yoga teacher (Kori Flechtner) is celebrating her 34th birthday and invited her students to join her tonight for a special yoga practice.  The core of the practice was 34 sun salutations in honor of each year of her life. It had been a looong time since I had been in a yoga class and I have to admit that I was a bit nervous going into this one.  As we sat in meditation at the beginning of the class, and I thought about my intention for the two hours that lie ahead, I...

Today's Observations For the past three days, I have had the pleasure of taking care of my friend Charisse's Shih Tzu - Phoebe.  Besides being just about the cutest darn thing you've ever seen, she is an example of a life lived with joy and confidence and ease.  She's a bit of a sleepy head, so while I did my morning yoga routine, she slept in.  But then after all, she...

Today's Observations I've just completed day 25 and I am still feeling really good with really high energy.  My mental clarity is one of the biggest changes I have noticed.  Live foods just make be feel more alive, plain and simple.  Making a new recipe everyday is getting to be a bit of a challenge, I'm not sure how Julie Powell did it for 365 days!  Kudos to her.  I...

Today's Observations I flew back home to Laguna Beach today from my parent's house in Castle Rock.  As it turned out, the most challenging part of my visit was not eating raw, but dealing with my parent's dial-up internet connection, which moves at the speed of molasses... on a cold, bitterly cold, winter day.  Just trying to get my mom set up on Facebook was painful. ...

Today's Observations I've had that Whitney Houston song stuck in my head all day... The greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me..... If I should fail, if I succeed, At least I'll live as I believe.... Because the greatest love of all... I don't know why it is that songs get stuck in our heads.  But as long as this one...

Today's Observations I find that some people are downright dumbfounded by my "diet".  My aunt who was visiting for my Dad's birthday, kept commenting on all the things I couldn't eat - "You mean you can't eat bread?  How do you live without bread?...  The birthday cake was delicious.  Oh, but I guess you can't have that.... You can't have yogurt?  But isn't that supposed...

Today's Observations Today was my Dad's much anticipated 80th birthday party.  It was the kind of humble celebration that one would expect in this small rural town.  Card tables set up in the garage and around the lawn with folding chairs and floral plastic tablecloths; an eight foot buffet table full of food; coffee brewed in a 30 cup percolator; and a huge beautifully...

Today's Observations I have always been struck by how delicious raw food is.  When I first went raw, that was the thing that surprised me most - it was actually really, really good.  I would follow a recipe and thow a bunch of things in my blender, and was just blown away by the aromas and the flavors.  When I've invited friends for dinner and fed them a raw...

Today's Observations I am way too happy.  Like giddy kind of happy.  Like if-I-were-you-I'd-be-suspicious kind of happy.  I don't know what is going on with this food I am eating, but I have been giggling all day.  I suppose its not a bad problem to have - giggling in the grocery store line, giggling while driving when noone is watching, giggling while sitting in the...