Eating

Fast Food Freedom

The desire for fast food is an illusion. It is not cheap anymore and it is often not really fast either. As far as financial efficiency, the days of the dollar menu are long gone. In the wake of rising consumer debt (the single most heavily marketed product in the...

Eating, Exercise

Fitness and Fast Food

A few hundred days ago, you could frequently find me in the fast food drive thru line at either McDonald’s or Dunkin Doughnuts, especially after a trip to my gym next door, double especially if I had a kid with me, wanting to reward them with a treat for getting up...

Eating

Ode to Sugar

Oh sugar, you promise sweet pleasure, yet you deliver far more pain. Oh sugar, you promise fun and excitement and variety full of colors and tastes and aromas; Yet you deliver mere distraction with the discomfort of my blood sugar soaring and then sinking at an...

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Nikola Rosa
Charlotte, NC

Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.