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Eight years later

For some reason, I think WordPress showed this blog to a bunch of people in the month of July, 2023. Um, okay. Why? No one’s posted here in years! But we’re not dead or anything, we just mostly moved on to other spaces. For me (Sarah Wynde), in 2023, I’m mostly posting at sarahwynde.com, and occasionally posting at rozellepress.com, with more business-oriented information. Not writing tips,…

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Fundamentals of Depression Recovery: Exercise

I could easily link to a dozen articles telling you that exercise will help with depression. The Mayo Clinic says so; Harvard Health says so; WebMD says so. There are about a million (<–hyperbole) small studies proving it, looking at different cohorts of people, exercise amounts, types of exercise, and so on, almost all of which conclude that yes, exercise helps alleviate depression symptoms in a…

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Fundamentals of Depression Recovery: Nutrition

Let’s assume for the moment that my problem is not the roosters that live within wake-me-up distance. The second fundamental ingredient for depression recovery is nutrition. If I was writing a book — say, maybe, something like a memoir about depression and grief and estrangement? — I’d spend some time wading through the science to give you lots of facts and chemistry info about how our food…

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The Fundamentals of Depression Recovery

Three words: sleep, nutrition, and exercise. I guess I didn’t need a whole blog post for that after all. 🙂 But actually, I want to write about all three of these things in more detail, because…well, why? I don’t know, maybe for the memoir I’m not really writing? Maybe because I know these things in bits and pieces and I want to organize my own knowledge? Maybe because writing them reminds me of…

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Duolingo

English is the only language I speak, and I’ve never really considered trying to learn another language. It’s not like I travel enough to think that it would be useful. In the past decade, there have been a few times when it might have been handy to know some Spanish and at least once when I wished my high school French wasn’t so completely rusty, but mostly… no. Not worth the effort. Especially…

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Oaxaca

I think that every time I went to write a blog post in September, I got distracted by the desire to post representative photos and the immense time suck of looking through my representative photos, of which there have been many. I mostly spent the month of September (2022), playing with dogs in beautiful places and cooking dazzling food. That might have meant plenty of blog posts — I like writing…

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A big bowl of possibilities

Red onion, brown bella mushrooms, ground beef, carrot, parsnip, sweet potato, cabbage, apple, dried cranberry, turmeric and mint, on a bed of power greens (aka kale, chard and spinach.) Since Suzanne broke her ankle, I’ve been sharing my AIP breakfasts with her. It’s essentially the same thing every morning: a bowl of vegetables with a protein. I mix it up — some days it’s white sweet potato…

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August Ongoing

It is the middle of August already, and I feel like I’ve accomplished exactly nothing this summer. Except a multitude of the accomplishments that stop being accomplishments an hour after you finish them, like when the dogs leave muddy footprints on the clean floor, or the cat complains that she’s hungry again. Also full of accomplishments that lead to new chores, like, yay, I cooked a delicious…

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August Update

I said to Suzanne over breakfast the other morning, “You would have been fine if I wasn’t here. You would have made friends with the UberEats or DoorDash delivery guy; figured out how to wear a garbage bag over your cast when entering the chicken coop; gotten rides to the places you needed to be from our awesome neighbors. It would have all worked out. You would have managed. But I’m glad you…

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The Story of Why Christina’s Birthday Presents Are Late (Part Four)

In parts 1-3, I am sick, struggling with caffeine withdrawal and Sophie gets a direct hit from a skunk. It is Tuesday morning, Christina’s actual birthday, and Suzanne is on her way home with a car full of dirty clothes of the type you get when you spend a week being uber-athletic in 110 degrees. (Roller-skating in Las Vegas, to refresh your memories.) She’s looking forward to doing laundry and…

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The Story of Why Christina's Birthday Presents Are Late (Part Three)

The Story of Why Christina’s Birthday Presents Are Late (Part Three)

In part one, we learned that I am not feeling well and have embarked on an ambitiously restrictive elimination diet to find the cause. In part two, we learned that caffeine withdrawal is brutal. Monday morning dawned bright and early. I think it was a little before 5AM, the sky barely turning light, when Sophie Sunshine said, “I really need to go outside. No, really, it is urgent. Urgent!” I…

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The Story of Why Christina's Birthday Presents Are Late (Part Two)

The Story of Why Christina’s Birthday Presents Are Late (Part Two)

In part one, we learned that I am not feeling well and have embarked on an ambitiously restrictive elimination diet to find the cause. On Monday, July 11th, Suzanne headed off with Bear for a fun ten-day adventure to RollerCon in Las Vegas, a roller-skating convention, leaving me in charge at the Mighty Small Farm. Now compared to a regular farm, the Mighty Small Farm is not a lot of work. Let…

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The Story of Why Christina's Birthday Presents Are Late (Part One)

The Story of Why Christina’s Birthday Presents Are Late (Part One)

My friend Christina is awesome. She is smart and fun and funny, opinionated as anything, decisive and honest, loyal and incredibly generous. She loves books and food and dogs and geek culture and cool music. She’s a librarian to the core of her soul, and a fantastic cook. She’s also the kind of friend who, if something is wrong, says, “What can I do? How can I help?” and then does it. If I ever…

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The Baby Ladies

Here at the Mighty Small Farm, the chickens are known as “the ladies,” as in “Have the ladies been generous today?” Because chickens do not tend to have very long life spans (even chickens as spoiled as those at the Mighty Small Farm), every year Suzanne gets a few new chicks to add to the coop, aka the baby ladies. In an ideal world, a broody hen takes the chicks under her wing and raises them.…

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AIP Failure

Last night, I sat down to my dinner, feeling slightly smug about how well I was eating and how great I was doing with my elimination diet. Oh, sure, I’d tossed a little cheddar cheese on my homemade, refried-bean tacos, but otherwise… homemade! Healthy! Vegetarian! Delicious! Then I remembered that corn isn’t allowed on the auto-immune protocol diet and my grilled corn was against the rules. Oh,…

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Quiet/Quiet

My dad said yesterday that I was being very quiet on my blog. Yep. This time it’s because I’m being very quiet in my life. I’ve been struggling with sleep, allergies, joint pain, and illness that might or might not have been gluten reaction, and so doing very little. The big events of my days have been dragging myself out of bed to play ball with Sophie, then putting myself straight back into…

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Quiet/Not Quiet

I had weird dreams last night, the kind you wake up from saying, “Whew, glad I’m not living in that reality.” And then wake up a little more and realize, “And thank goodness that reality is completely impossible.” My actual reality is pretty nice; it’s raining right now so I’m listening to the pleasant music on my skylight, with Sophie curled up at the foot of the bed. May was a quiet month for…

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