Carnivore Dreams – Halloween Dry Run

More: My grandson was here.  So we did a dry run for Halloween.  Oh here is his angry punkin.  I will carve the bigger one closer to Halloween.  Not sure I can pull off Wicked above, but some version of witch. We had a lot of fun.  I need another mist maker.  One wasn't quite …

Carnivore Dreams – Second Chances

Worth another posting. Care-givers get a unique chance to work through all that crap that gets left unfinished from childhood.  You don't really hear about that much.  Though the first thing I would tell people is not to expect to be super-human.  There are going to be times you have emotions that aren't perfect.  We …

Carnivore Dreams – Childhood

Denial--sometimes I think we can't move past our childhoods because we really don't want to face them. Let me preface this with saying we all have childhood issues.  I was raised in the US of A and right there I have it better than most.  My parents provided an upper middle class lifestyle for my …

Carnivore Dreams – Red Meat

New study you probably all heard, conducted from medical folks from Canada and Poland, found eating red meat (even processed red meat) was fine for you. I'm not sure I agree on cured meat--I eat uncured bacon and sausage and grass fed meat and when I eat vegetables, I eat organic. But yeah, no kidding.  …

Carnivore Dreams -Fatigue

I had posted earlier this week that I was low on emotional reserves dealing with a host of loved ones who have been ill or hurt and some financial concerns as well.  Interestingly, a fitness coach whose blog I follow had a piece about over-training and brain fatigue. You can both stress out your adrenals …

Carnivore Dreams– Breakfast strata

Not for me, but have some leftover bread. Don't have any cream cheese, though, so not sure it would work our for the guys today.  Maybe whip them up a German pancake with lemon and powdered sugar.  I love those, so it will be hard not to have one. I am going to make chicken …

Carnivore Dreams–Keep a good thought

I normally don't quote Freud over Jung.  Jung was a protege of Freud's for a time until they parted because Jung believed in synchronicity, a higher power perhaps, that every human instinct wasn't motivated by sex.  Still, I like the sentiment. Today is October 1 and keep a good thought for me that I can …

Carnivore Dreams – Carb Refeed

Not the optimal refeed item--most of the cyclical types lean toward sweet potatoes. And I had planned by now to get on strict carnivore for a bit until Thanksgiving.  Hasn't happened. I'm not sleeping. I have been taking care of my dad with Parkinson's and my son Josh with Down's.  Now my husband is in …

Carnivore Dreams – Jungian Thoughts

I am not a believer in the value of circumstances--we simply cannot distinguish the good from the bad because so much is interconnected.  The earlier people get this, the better things will go for them.  As the fat man says, "there is no such thing as a bad day."  (He is a disc jockey in …

Carnivore Dreams – Care-giving

  Lots to it.   Medication issues top the list.  Lots of red tape if there are financial or health insurance issues.   Probably the hardest is being the person who personifies a loved one's diminished capacity or lack of freedom.  That would be me. But I'm trying to keep my dad out of assisted living which …