In-between, without you.

I don't miss her anymore, I miss the idea of her. Maybe that's worse.

I'm 10 years younger than she was when she died.

I've lived 17 years of my life without her.

It's strange to consider that the single most defining moment of your life happened before you even hit puberty.

Just after a glimmer...

I just purged my kitchen of all animal protein. No ice cream. No cheese. No cultured Irish and european butter. (The last being the only difficult item to surrender.)

I am officially back to vegan. I did it for seven years, I imagine I can do it again. I may at one point opt to reintroduce a few select animal proteins into my diet - but not for a while.

It's not a religious thing, it's a health thing. It didn't really help before, but I am hoping that this go round the exclusion of animal protein from my diet will help with the inflammation - and I already know it'll help with my kidneys.

Now comes the fun part - concocting things to eat!