Lifestyle Makeover: A Runner’s Dietary Analysis

My eating habits have improved since I started running, but exceptions remain. I have a fondness for pastries, and no desire to curb my enthusiasm for dark chocolate. But I can pass up fast food, white bread, and sweets of lesser quality without a qualm. My “willpower” amazes people at times. “What are you worried …

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Lifestyle Makeover, Part 2: What Goes In

While my wife is at home for several weeks recovering from abdominal surgery, we’re making some overdue upgrades to our house and our lifestyles. In this series of posts I’m sharing these changes with my readers. Two weeks after her surgery, my wife surprised me by uttering a phrase I never thought I’d hear from …

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All Dieters, Please Skip This Post

I HAVE BEEN AN ACCESSORY TO AN ABOMINABLE CRIME. Or, perhaps more appropriately, an abdominal crime. It began with a call from my daughter in Richmond, asking for advice with a bread pudding recipe. She's an excellent and innovative cook and I know my way around bread pudding, so I was happy to help. Well, …

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