Lifestyle goes into everything that encompasses our world. Food, sleep, play, social, mental health. These are all the pieces that make for a rounded happy human.
Friday Afternoon Reading A FEW ARTICLES TO GET YOU THROUGH THAT FRIDAY AFTERNOON SLUMP, WHEN, LET’S FACE IT, WE ALL KNOW YOU AREN’T ACTUALLY GOING TO GET ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE DONE. Is it possible that the overall “softness” of modern food is at least somewhat to blame for orthodontic issues? What if Georgians increased their… Read more Friday Afternoon Reading Love Links round-up for March 18, 2016
“With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” Hunter S. Thompson Not for the first time in human history but for the first time in the modern era, people are going to die, on average, earlier than their parents. For all… Read more The High-Water Mark
The Ruckas Pup (This was never intended as a post. This was something I originally wrote as a thank you to the wonderful folks at the St. Augustine Humane Society where I adopted the Ruckas pup some 15 years ago. I didn’t actually think it would ever go public. However, it did go public and… Read more The Ruckas Pup
The pig comes on Saturday. Preparations are in full swing here at the Country Boy household. For the better part of a month, we have been making a point to use up most of the various animal pieces in our freezer. This has resulted in several epic bone broth brewing ultra-marathons, a few unique new… Read more The Pig Comes on Saturday
What can you do right NOW? Quick start 6 step guide to start reclaiming a Heritage/Paleo-esque way of eating and living. Talk to someone who was alive during the Great Depression and ask them about how they ate growing up and when they first encountered a grocery store as we know it. Bonus points if they… Read more Quick Start 6 Step Guide to Heritage Eating
The Origin Story (This was originally intended as an About Me Page, however it grew into a post, so read it as an insight into how CountryBoyPaleo.com came into existence.) Disclaimer, repeat after me, I am not a Doctor nor do I play one on the internet. Got that? Good. Let me be very very… Read more The Origin Story of how Country Boy Paleo came into existence.
Let’s get this out of the way now so we can move past it. Paleo. Paleo. Paleo…. See, no Michael Keaton-esque Beetlejuice-ish character appeared. Yet, in seemingly normal people you say the word Paleo and they lose their fucking minds. I’ve heard Paleo referred to as everything from a “fad diet” to a mis-appropriated concept that… Read more Paleo, that damn word
I have a 90 year old Grandfather and a 15 year old pup. At Christmas this year I had them both in the same room at the same time for the first time in a long time. Got all that? The pup, Ruckas is a mix of, well, mostly canine DNA I would imagine, probably… Read more Of Dogs, Life and Grandfathers
Ah, it is that time again. That eternal Monday of the American mind. That glorious morning on which we pin all sorts of hopes and dreams. That morning, that well, usually finds us in a grumpy mood, possibly slightly hungover, and more than likely low on sleep, but this is it, this is the day… Read more 11 Tips for Avoiding the New Year’s Resolutions Trap
So, in my freezer, on the very bottom shelf you will find plastic baggies. Plastic baggies filled with bones. All sorts of bones, some small, smaller than a finger, others quite large, not much smaller than a femur. Do I risk alerting the authorities to some heinous crimes committed? If you think yes, you probably… Read more Let’s Talk About Bags of Bones, Bone Broth and Eating Nose To Tail