Primal Painter

Recipes

February 26, 2011 | Comments Off

Pulled Pork and BBQ Sauce. Also, Cookies!

I never really thought much about BBQ sauce until it became the ...

August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments

Banana Walnut Paleonola

This recipe is a variation of Sarah Murray’s Paleo Granola I found ...

March 30, 2010 | Comments Off

Breakfast Time

Breakfast has ALWAYS been my favorite meal of the day, and it’s ...

Latest News

January 10, 2012 | Comments Off

Though I’m loathe to give this site up entirely I’m going to continue my hiatus until I figure out what, if anything, I want to do with it. Until that time I’m turning off comments. The spammy “omg brilliant article thx for posting!!1!” comments are starting to eat into my day!

March 3, 2011 | Comments Off

It’s Messy in Here…

I am in the process of moving my content and restructuring my old blog, which you can find here. Pardon my mess.

January 17, 2011 | 5 Comments

I Get Disturbing Google Search Terms, and a Good Book.

One of my favorite parts of checking my blog stats, besides making sure my three fans are still there in spite of my failure to update this thing on a regular basis (thanks guys!) is seeing what search terms lead traffic to my site. Here is the latest disturbing glimpse into the minds of the [...]

November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

Remembrance

I’ve been chewing on this post, I, Veteran by Adam Glass on and off all day. Though I can’t imagine he intended this, I was bawling by the fourth paragraph and didn’t stop for a long, long time. If rough language offends you for some reason you might want to skip it because he doesn’t [...]

September 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Donate to a Great Cause, Win an Original Oil Painting

Only three more days till the annual Crossfit Fundraiser, Fight Gone Bad (FGB). And only three more days for a chance to win an original oil painting! I recently joined a CrossFit gym in Boulder. If you’ve never heard of CrossFit, it’s a challenging and fun program characterized by a quick intense Workout Of the [...]

September 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Wednesday WOD Update :: “The only easy day was yesterday.”

This week’s WODs have been really tough. The good news is my strategy of hydrating beforehand has been effective with the parchedness, leaving me free to deal more gracefully with the workouts themselves. I’ve really needed that advantage this week. One of the paradoxes of CrossFit, as far as I can tell from listening to [...]

September 21, 2010 | Comments Off

Ten on Tuesday :: Artists I Love

Supposedly this blog is about art too, not just bloody ripped palms and caveman cuisine, so today’s Ten on Tuesday post is dedicated to some modern(ish) day masters I admire. This was a really hard post to write! How could I choose just 10 when there are literally hundreds of painters who take my breath [...]

September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments

Wednesday WOD Update :: Skin on Palms Totally Optional

Been going to CF regularly since my last WOD update several weeks ago, save for last Wednesday I took off to nurse cold or whatever it was that knocked me on my rear. I was too sick even to watch much Buffy, usually my show of choice when I’m in a TeeVee kinda mood. Some [...]

September 14, 2010 | 6 Comments

Ten on Tuesday: Ten Reasons I Love CrossFit

I’ve been CrossFitting only a few months and already I am what you might call a FanGirl of the sport. Here are the top ten reasons why: Real Training for Real Life. All the movements done in Crossfit are functional and transfer to real life: squats, lifts, push ups, pull ups, lunges, running, jumping, overhead [...]

August 29, 2010 | Comments Off

Accidental Pot Roast, and Deckosaurus Progress

One of the little joys in life is discovering that a meal you didn’t expect to work out ends up being so scrumptious it becomes one of your favorites. Even better is when that meal was so easy to prepare it’s almost embarrassing to tell anyone about it. That’s what happened yesterday with what I [...]

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