About two weeks ago, I made Heidi Swanson’s Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies, except I didn’t actually have mesquite flour so I subbed in more whole wheat pastry flour like Swanson suggests.  They were decent cookies, but I wondered about the mesquite flour–would they have been great cookies instead?  I might never have known without the [...]

Time of Day: 5:25 AM Weather: 77*, 84% humidity Duration:  1 hour 8 minutes 57 seconds Distance: 8 miles Average Pace: 8:37/mile Notes: Yesterday I made it a whole 68 minutes on the elliptical and I went nice and fast.  I think it was a record. Today I got up at 5 to run before work.  I love running at [...]

I’m at my parents’ home near Austin, TX with them and both siblings.  We haven’t all been in the same house for awhile now, maybe since the holidays!  I baked some cookies to celebrate.  Can you believe I didn’t try the #1 cookie recipe on Allrecipes.com until now?  I’m glad I finally did, because Beth’s [...]

*Updated: The recipe below had a typo that I just fixed.  1 cup of butter = 2 sticks. I went to Super Target yesterday and finally found Cadbury Creme Eggs after striking out at HEB and Walgreens.  I bought 2 boxes and a bag of the Mini Eggs.  I have mixed feelings about the Mini [...]

There is something utterly demotivating about being injured.  I don’t want to go to work, I don’t want to write, I don’t want to do anything except be able to run without pain.  Yesterday I found out that I can’t do that during a test run that lasted only 22 minutes.  I am starting to [...]