by Lani Muelrath | Sep 30, 2010 | Travel
Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do. My two darling sisters, Pam and Kristie, and I have just driven out to the Oregon coastline after rendezvous in Portland from 3 corners of the country. We drove the winding roads from the city to the coast, stopping for baskets of...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 28, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
True to my promise to report in on how I fueled the heady and grueling ascent to the top of Half Dome n Yosemite last week (see How A Busy Woman Trains To Climb Yosemite’s Half Dome) I’m here to report that we did the whole darn thing on our usual, easy...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 24, 2010 | All Posts, Move Your Body, Travel
Terror grips your gut even before you slide up onto the near vertical granite wall you’ve got to glue your nose to if you want to haul yourself to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite. Call it a summer highlight or sheer foolhardiness, but this week’s ascent...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 24, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Long the victims of intense marketing campaigns by the Four Food Lobbies, we’ve been sold a gallon of milk and a bill of goods by the dairy industry one time to many. Warning! This revealing presentation by Dr. John McDougall, M.D., will tilt the milk cart on...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 14, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
What do you get when you pile a whole tangle of world class nutrition experts, researchers, and physicians on one big platter, like a big heap o’ brown rice? Lively debate (they don’t agree on everything). Spirited discussion (everyone kept their sense of...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 12, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Another AMAZING day here at the Advanced Study Weekend in Santa Rosa. Since yesterday’s check in, I already have about 5 more stories to tell. And it’s so late I really should just turn out the light and catch some zzzs but there’s such a full agenda...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 8, 2010 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Is there really a button you can push that instantly makes workouts easier and more effective? Would that be music to your ears? The answer is YES. And the “music to your ears” part? Literal. You Knew It All Along, Didn’t You? Let me ask you a...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 6, 2010 | Move Your Body
Nothing like new shoes to put spring in your step. Yosemite trekking is 2 weeks out and when we were there last May, my veteran trail shoes did not stand up to the slip of granite! So I looked for something with a gecko sole and I think I may have round it in these...