Gothic Granola

Running with scissors is fun until you fall.   via GIPHY So is corporate wellness: it sounds like a tonne of fun, with stretch breaks on the clock, healthy snacks in the break room, employer-sponsored massages, health coaching, exercise classes...

It's time for another round of Into It/Over It , the High Altitude Edition.  The point of this type of post is to point out a negative and replace it with a positive (and sometimes just point out positives).  What does a picture of this awesome-yet-undisclosed location have to do with Gothic anything?  If you have ever read any Gothic literature ( Frankenstein ,  The Castle of Otranto ,  Carmilla ,  Dracula , et cetera), they can be read as travel journals, with significant chunks of text devoted to describing landscapes and characters' travels.  I re-read  Carmilla  on a weekend's camping trip, and the descriptions of Styria (region in modern-day Austria and Slovenia) reminded me of the critical angle of Gothic literature as travel journals.

Because we are Gothic Granola, we go to concerts for Goth, Industrial, Synthpop, Alternative, Electronic, and more, as the entertainment budget allows. That's a royal "we." On Tuesday we went to see Covenant at Casselman's in Denver, hosted by Club Sanctuary . We rode on sportbike to Denver, and having seen few practical posts for wearing makeup under a full-face helmet, I decided to experiment. As I said in this post , I don't wear makeup often and I don't think it adds anything to my appearance. Most message boards I read for female riders focused on the hair, and I happen to like helmet hair (I also have short hair and a low-maintenance deathhawk, so there's not much to "ruin"). 

Last week's synchronicity went from Sunday to Sunday.

Being GF is not a diet. It's a lifestyle. It's sometimes not a choice ( id est , coeliac, IBS, leaky gut, intolerances, allergies). A recent NY Times article by Kim Severson pointed out how life as a GF diner is becoming somewhat easier.  I do and don't understand why someone would become gluten-free just to try it. After initially losing weight due to losing an entire food substance from one's diet, being GF (or being vegan, for that matter) is no guarantee of weight control/maintenance. This dog is GF because he has food allergies.

Being GF is not a diet. It's a lifestyle. It's sometimes not a choice ( id est , coeliac, IBS, leaky gut, intolerances, allergies). A recent NY Times article by Kim Severson pointed out how life as a GF diner is becoming somewhat easier.  I do and don't understand why someone would become gluten-free just to try it. After initially losing weight due to losing an entire food substance from one's diet, being GF (or being vegan, for that matter) is no guarantee of weight control/maintenance. This dog is GF because he has food allergies.

Greetings from Colorado! I've been busy accomplishing things since April of which I am proud, in no particular order:

Greetings from Colorado! I've been busy accomplishing things since April of which I am proud, in no particular order: