I've worked out storage for fabric that will be donated to the teachers art materials site next month (and organized it by bagging each type in clear plastic so they don't have a lot of work when they receive it). A box for Goodwill is ready to head out the door this afternoon, but I have yet to sort out a major tripping hazard in the back doorway of my garage. That solution involves getting out the tiller, more about the French drain later.

I set a lamp on some shelves in the bedroom next to my exercise area, where a Mission oak rocker sits and that is now going to serve as a reading spot. It's easier to mark on the text or a postit note to stick to a page when I'm seated versus reading lying in bed. I'm enjoying getting back to bedtime reading but it doesn't mean I'm not reading to retain content. Right now, as I get further into the Taubes' book Good Calories, Bad Calories, it is distressingly obvious that a lot of early researchers were more driven by confirmation bias than they were in actual proof that their theories were correct (or not, and moving on). This has created patterns of thinking that are difficult to dislodge in medicine and popular culture.

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

Heading out to deliver a couple of items and take measurements for a chair back cover for the friend whose mobility chair keeps banging into things and the vinyl gets ripped. I may also make it over to the gym.