The Last Saturday

The Last Saturday

How many Saturdays does it take to finish a project? Not a yard project, or a house project, or an art project or a kitchen project. I mean a life project. Multiple Saturdays, many Saturdays over years. Throw in some Sundays too. During a study …

The Weight of Expectations

The Weight of Expectations

I started at the hospital in my clinical rotation in the middle of September and I was excited. That feeling of levity – like I finally landed where I belonged – came crashing down fast and left me reeling. A punishing sleep-travel-study-sleep schedule sucked my …

SWMDDA Meeting: Food Insecurity in SW Michigan

SWMDDA Meeting: Food Insecurity in SW Michigan

This was a fun event. I drove to the culinary campus right after work to catch Courtney Afton, who was teaching this wonderful seminar to our dietetics association. I’ve seen her teach this before – I met her through a mutual friend two years ago, …

Read It And Weep

Read It And Weep

The joke’s on me, actually, since all I do is read (with a little weeping, kept to a minimum). I can’t recommend any good novels or magazines because the only reading I’m doing now is business management, marketing, and the personal statements for DICAS I’ve …

January Diet Culture

January Diet Culture

You know its New Year’s when…… all the SlimFast and Atkins shakes go on sale. I used to be a part of this diet culture – “messing up” during the holidays (read: enjoying food and family) and revving up a new attempt to lose that …

Shake Out

Shake Out

“It will all shake out” she said, with a straight face. This woman doesn’t know me well – she’s a friend of a friend, and she’s an MS RDN and has gobs of information/advice I currently want. I stalked the RD because I needed some …

Can We Wait Until I Match?

Can We Wait Until I Match?

I’m working on a paper for my senior class about our plans and goals after graduation. I have abstract goals, like sleeping, playing my guitar, going on vacations, learning Spanish – but the only real goal right now is an internship. Finishing the degree too, …