Miss BeFit: Spring Fever
It’s contagious, Denver. Spring Fever. We’ve had days of sixty-degree weather the past couple weeks (we will call today a blip) and my family and friends on the East Coast seem to be done with their winter already. “Oh, I thought about you when I was at the beach and I’m on the phone with...
Miss BeFit: Robert Sullivan’s “Matters of the Heart”
Anybody who knows me quite well is aware that I spend a fair amount of my free time reading older issues of Vogue. As I prepare to move across town, I’ve been tearing out my favorite articles so I can chuck the rest of them (sob!). In the November 2011 issue I, again, came across...
“I was told I would never walk again.”
Have you ever noticed how most of us think our problems are always way worse than everyone else’s—even though there’s millions of people out there who are poverty stricken, homeless and don’t have a thing, I think most of us tend to forget how much we really do have. And of course we’ve all heard...
Miss BeFit: Mile High Down Syndrome Association
303’s Party Issue is hot off the presses, folks. We’re picking out our holiday dresses with the right amount of sparkle, perfecting the art of knotting a bow tie with a sufficient amount of quirk and shining our patent leather dancing shoes to within an inch of their lives, all in anticipation of this most...
My Friend, the Quitter
At this moment, on this turkey-filled day, my friend T-lish has officially lost count of how many hours it has been since her last cigarette. She’s smoked since I’ve known her (four years, I think) and for four years before that. It’s weird to think that when I see her at Christmas (she lives in...
Miss BeFit: Pill-Poppin’ Nation
Pills, pills, pills (should Destiny’s Child decide they’d like to regroup, I think I’ve found their next single.) It is with increasing regularity that I come across an article in a fave rag about pills or prescriptions or concern for too many pills and prescriptions. The most recent article I found in the April 2011...
Health Bent: Nutritionist Angela Csargo
You are what you eat. Even idiots know the idiom, but few fully grasp that the random garbage they’re consuming is gradually trashing their vessel. Western medicine-trained doctors are allegedly responsible for our health, yet they rarely receive any formal training in nutrition. It’s ludicrous. Nutrition classes should be fixtures in public schools, but the...
Miss BeFit: Raw Diets
I haven’t ever really been a huge fan of vegetables. Fruit, I can eat it every day, every meal, no matter what. I’ll eat a whole mini watermelon in a day and I’ll slice four kiwis in half and scoop ‘em out with a spoon. But vegetables? Nuh uh. Occasionally I’ll go through a weird...
Foodie on a Diet: Grilled Sweet Potato “Fries”
My daily culinary adventures spice up my life. I’ve mastered fruit tarts, homemade bread and my first Thanksgiving outside my parents’ house — all within the past year. In April, I pigged out at the Cochon555 and at The Corner Office’s Disco Brunch. A few weeks ago, I went to the soft opening of The...
Natural Highs: H2Owners
The other night, as I sat watching the rain fall, gloomy from my lack of outdoor adventures, I started thinking about where all this rain culminates on its journey. I pondered the water cycle and the reasons for shortages in fresh water. Curious as to what forms of media had been done on the topic,...
Miss BeFit: The Beach
I’m thinking that maybe half of you, Denver, will agree with me in saying that the one thing missing from this beautiful state is the beach. The other half of you is perfectly fine with the ocean being as far away as it is and you’ve contented yourselves with those glorious Rockies. Sure, the mountains...
