Are you new to gluten-free?

McDonald’s fries I, originally uploaded by shaunaforce.   I have eaten my fill of McDonald’s french fries. Not recently, of course. I haven’t actually eaten in a McDonald’s in years. But when I was a kid, growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, I keened and ached to sit under those golden arches and [...]

pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, originally uploaded by shaunaforce.   You know, I had every intention of this being a gluten-free Thanksgiving. After all, I remember every Thanksgiving of my life before this one, laying around in the late afternoon with my stomach overly full, my throat constricted, my head pounding from the pain, and a [...]

canned fruit, originally uploaded by shaunaforce. You know you have good friends when they bring homemade, canned fruit to your parties.  Last night, I had a big party at my house. What was the occasion? Nothing in particular. Summer’s over, autumn is here. I finished my three days of all-day faculty meetings, and just being [...]

chickpea salad, originally uploaded by shaunaforce. Many of you have been writing me emails and leaving comments. Thanks everyone; keep it coming. (And tell your friends about this site.) Most of you probably can’t eat gluten already. But some of you have been asking: what the heck is gluten, anyway? Well, let me give you [...]

caprese salad, originally uploaded by shaunaforce. Earlier this week, I drove up to Port Townsend, a Victorian town perched on the hill, overlooking blue water and the Olympic mountains. I’ve been there before, nearly every year. And every year, the food astounds me. But of course, this year, I had other food concerns besides the [...]

And this week, I climbed on a bicycle and rode it around Greenlake. Around and around in the rain, grinning all the way. I honestly can’t remember how long it has been since I was on a bicycle, pedalling without thinking, balancing in that delicate, solid way that only bike tires slapping the ground can [...]

4 June 2005 I’m only starting to walk down this path, but I already feel as though I have done a lifetime’s learning. I feel thankful to everyone on the forums on celiac.com, the delphi forums on celiac, and the braintalk community. Without commenting, I’ve been reading and learning from these disparate people, spread throughout [...]

And what a grateful time to be feeling healthy. I’m so happy to feel my body restore itself. I can’t even tell you what a remarkable difference there is in me since I stopped eating gluten. I’m starting to feel better than I ever have in my life. Energy is surging through me, for the [...]

from May 11: I’m on my way there. I’m still feeling a little pain. I’m still easy to exhaust. My skin is a mess because the virus, and then the celiac, found its way into every part of my body. It’s going to be six months before my intestines are completely recovered, and so I’m [...]