Day Thirty

Today is the last day.
I spent most of the day considering this. I kept thinking about what I wanted to eat, what I was going to write about. I thought about all the folks who have been reading, leaving comments, and donating money to our project. I thought about how we would make the donation [...]

Day Twenty Nine

When Christopher and I first started talking about trying to do this, we did not talk about blogging. That idea came later. I was nervous about that aspect the project. I hadn’t though much about telling people about it; it was just something we were going to do. One day at the [...]

Day Twenty Eight

To make good on my promise of finding a part of Encinitas that I previously had never been to, today we visited the Self Realization Fellowship center. Although it was quite beautiful, walking through the meditation gardens among plenty of other visitors didn’t help me come to any “realization”.
However, there was a moment in the [...]

Day Twenty Seven

“I don’t feel good” has been the slogan around here lately. My sickness this week has been followed by Christopher having an upset stomach for the past 24 hours. I spent most of the day moping around with a headache. We have not been a cheerful lot today… well, the dogs have, [...]

Day Twenty Six

In West Oakland there are 53 liquor stores and no grocery stores. There is a 99 Cents Only store, but that is as close as it comes to accessing fresh produce. The primary sources of food are fast food restaurants and snack foods from corner stores.
The 24,000 people who live in this area are mostly [...]

Day Twenty Five

We finally had our friend, Dave, over for dinner. I was about nervous having him over because I wanted to make sure that I would still get enough to eat. Fortunately, I did. He said he was surprised by the portion we were able to feed him. We had a typical dinner [...]

Day Twenty Four

We spent tonight at the Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego as attendees of their distinguished lecture series. Tonight’s lecture from the Honorable Louise Arbour, the former UnitedNations High Commissioner for Human Rights, helped me understand the connections between security, development and human rights. Her talk, titled “Crafting Human Security [...]

Day Twenty Three

I don’t feel well today. It is not necessarily from our diet; I have had sick, sneezy students for the past two weeks. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a headache that seemed to get worse as the day went on. It is 7:20 right now, I feel [...]

Day Twenty Two

In high school, I repeated math every summer.
It wasn’t that I couldn’t learn how to do it; I just didn’t care. What did math really have to do with life anyway? I was too busy booking concerts, playing music, and developing my passion for activism. I did o.k. in most of my classes, but honestly, [...]

Day Twenty One

We have ventured into new territory. Soup! One of the challenges we’ve faced is trying to make a variety of meals with limited ingredients. We are eating a good deal of bean, rice, chickpea, and tomato based foods. I am sure there are infinite numbers of meals that we could create, if we had the [...]