Ever look around your house and realize you have too much stuff? We did. And while the instinct is to make a run to Goodwill or St. Vincent de Paul store, there is an alternative. In your neighborhood, there is most likely a “Buy Nothing” group on Facebook where neighbors offer up items they wishContinue reading “Buy Nothing: good for the neighborhood and the planet”
Author Archives: Zanna
Tasty and Healthy Homemade Granola
Paul and I like to eat granola but frankly most of the granola out there that you can buy is full of fat and sugar, and over-processed. Making your own granola, however, is quite easy. My granola recipe is influenced by Kathleen Daeleman’s crunchy granola recipe from her book Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen, butContinue reading “Tasty and Healthy Homemade Granola”
Delicious (Vegan) Mushroom Sweet Potato Lentil Soup
This post is part of the Virtual Vegan Potluck, held on November 16, 2013. At the bottom of the post, you will find links to the previous and next recipe posts in the Virtual Vegan Potluck. Enjoy! Here is a link to the beginning of the potluck posts. Paul and I recently became vegan. NotContinue reading “Delicious (Vegan) Mushroom Sweet Potato Lentil Soup”
Cancer Gets Personal
It seems like not too long ago when I didn’t know anyone with cancer and then it seemed to hit, like summer here in Seattle…One day it’s 50 degrees and raining, and the next, boom, it’s hot and sticky summer weather. All of a sudden all around us, just like, for me, cancer. In 2011Continue reading “Cancer Gets Personal”
From the Future Mrs. The Whole Geek…
I don’t think my story is unique; you workout you maintain a decent functioning body and then you meet someone, fall in love, and as I like to say, gain “10 pounds of love weight.” The phenomenon is not for women only: men seem to go through this too, so it’s no surprise that PaulContinue reading “From the Future Mrs. The Whole Geek…”
The Whole Geek 