Trying to eat more plants as a picky vegetarian was an adventure In February of 2024, I started focusing on eating 30 plants a week, every week. It was a fun challenge I saw that a friend was coincidentally thinking about, so three of us ended up doing it together. I made it just over two years, eating thirty different plants every week for over 104 weeks. I am a vegetarian, and my family owned a produce store when I was growing up, so you would think this would be easy. Y

"May you heal so hard you do your hobbies again." That was shared by a fellow writer I follow on Substack. It has stuck with me all week. and it seems to have really resonated with other creatives as well. I am lucky. I have been enjoying a number of hobbies over the last few years. That wasn't always the case though. During the early years of motherhood, especially when I was still working, taking care of infants and toddlers, and during each pregnancy, I didn't have much