Jane and I were out and about today, running errands, as we usually do on Saturdays. We talked about lunch and decided to eat at Grassroots in South Pasadena. Grassroots has rapidly become our favorite restaurant. We’ve eaten there three times in the past three weeks. The food is delicious [...]

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Jane often gets the urge to bake when it cools down. Our vegan diet has kept that pretty much in check. The first week we were vegans she made the chocolate cake out of the Real Food Daily Cookbook. It’s amazing what you can do with tofu.
Anyway, the cake cost about $20 [...]

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That’s 14 pounds, gone without really trying.
Sometime in June Jane, my wife, decided we were going vegan. Since we’re not billionaires, we decided that we’d finish off all the animal product in the house first. We also had a trip planned for the end of June, and didn’t want to start our new [...]

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So, we went from brutal summer heat to winter overnight. We even had over an inch of rain (that’s slightly less rain than we had all of last year!), which is highly unusual in that we normally don’t have rain between April and October.
It’s been like winter here. That was enough for [...]

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Jane has a friend who works in Hollywood. This woman, Kay, is so busy she only surfaces every few weeks or so, and then we only just manage to meet for breakfast. It’s been a long standing thing with us, and we all seem to really enjoy it.
Yesterday was our first breakfast with [...]

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