Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
This morning at Quaker Meeting for Worship (on Zoom!), I was thinking about how easily triggered most of us are in this time, and how that places increased responsibility on all of us to be judicious about what we share. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing lots of people to be in a general state of…
FOR THE CAKE: 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon ¾ teaspoon salt 3 cups grated carrots (you can grate the carrots in a food processor fitted with a shredding blade) 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans 1 cup shredded coconut, sweetened or unsweetened ½ cup moist, plump raisins (dark or golden) or dried…
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to throw a dance video watching party. Tonight I finally got my chance! Using the TwoSeven video sharing service, I got together 30 buddies to watch lindy hop videos, chosen by four lovely dancer friends Amanda Collins, Samantha Nguyen, Ann Mony and Shawn Chiao. Hosting a party for…
Tiramisu is one of my favorite desserts of all time. I was shocked at how easy it is to make. The hardest part is waiting overnight for it to set! Ingredients FOR THE CREAM: 4 large egg yolks ½ cup/100 grams granulated sugar, divided ¾ cup heavy cream 1 cup/227 grams mascarpone (8 ounces) FOR…
An “Exquisite Corpse” is a form of collaborative artwork (typically a drawing or a short story), where each person contributes a small section of the work, but you don’t see the final product until the end. Since we are stuck in quarantine because of the COVID-19 outbreak, I decided to get some friends to collaborate…
During an interview for a blog yesterday, I was musing about what made lindy hop so special to me. And that’s when it hit me: Lindy hop didn’t come from a place where everything was rosy and people were always jumping for joy. It came from the African American community during the Depression, amidst systemic…
For the last two months I have been following an intermittent fasting diet. I can say that it’s definitely one of the easiest diets I’ve ever followed. Certainly a lot easier than paleo / low carb / keto diets, which I have done in various forms over the past three years. Specifically, I am following…
On Sunday night, I was driving back to my apartment in San Francisco at around midnight, using my friend Hanah’s car. I was dead tired after a long dance weekend in Oakland. My goal was to get to bed as early as possible… but the parking gods had other plans. Pulling up to my neighborhood,…
I have to say I’m proud of myself for researching, organizing, prepping, and executing a solo ski trip to Squaw Valley yesterday that went off beautifully. I love it when a plan comes together. Getting back to the slopes was one of my bucket list things for 2020. But I had a lot of obstacles…
I’m happy to report that I got through the first week (well five days) of intermittent fasting, and it was pretty painless! Sticking to the 16:8 fasting / eating schedule has so far been easy. I’ve been doing 7pm-11am as my typical fasting window, which basically means no eating after dinner and no breakfast. The…