I've surrendered. I'm blogging. I promise only to post when I'm working on something apart from the ordinary -- not necessarily extraordinary, but something independent of the status quo. I've got interesting stuff going on in 2010 -- assignments that'll bring me to the Olympics in Vancouver, among others -- and I figure I might as well share with those who visit my site (faithful readers, like my mother). Without further ado ...

... Working on a feature for Men's Journal that drives around some very compelling new science: modern man's omega-3 deficiencies -- we're finding out -- are largely responsible for inflammatory diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. Some of the most fun info. in the piece has to do with the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who had much healthier ratios of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in their bloodstreams than we do. As part of a special exercise and dietary regimen I embraced for the article -- and partly inspired by a wild boar episode from Michael Pollan's The Ominvore's Dilemma -- I embarked on a hunter-gatherer mission of my own for Thanksgiving. The result is this omega-3-rich A-run steelie, plucked from Idaho's Little Salmon River and happily placed on my Thanksgiving plate the very next day. Gut geschmeckt. Look for the whole article in MJ -- on newsstands everywhere -- this August.