Eating, Priorities

Green Juice and Chocolate Cake Please

Have your cake and drink your nutrients too. Life is meant to be lived in joyful balance. Green juice all the time would be boring. Chocolate cake all the time would feel terrible and cause weight gain. The solution is balance. Think of the old joke of the fast...

Eating, Priorities

Stop the Diet Madness

My history with dieting is very full. I switched diets at a rate and rhythm reminiscent of the “bend and snap” made famous in Legally Blonde. I am, in fact, legally blonde…that is, according to my driver’s license! Not that I have ever done the “bend and snap” to...

Eating, Priorities

I Declare War. On. Diets.

Join my fight. Wage war with me on diets one day at a time. Diets are destroying our joy, freedom, livelihood, and productivity like a pandemic. The resolution is simple. We have to abstain from going on a diet. Fight the temptation. I dare you! In 2013, a research...

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.