Every January, the question is the same: what will actually last past the third week? In January 2016, Dallas Voice — the paper of record for LGBT Texas since 1984 — built its annual Body Issue around that question and put me on the cover, arm flexed, in a shirt that read New year, new you.
Inside, on page 20, ran the feature “Vegging Out,” an interview by Lawrence Ferber about the part-time-vegan method I’d just published in Tiny and Full: eat a vegan breakfast, then eat normally the rest of the day. All of the benefit, none of the all-or-nothing commitment that makes most people quit by February.
It was also one of the first times I spoke openly in print about coming out five years earlier, about co-parenting Parker and Owen, and about the ordinary domestic mechanics of a blended, imperfect, functioning family. Asked whether coming out changed my career, my honest answer was that it didn’t — the industry and my readers stayed. If anything, it brought me closer to them.
Ten years later the food philosophy has evolved into the two-hour method in MORE TIME, but the principle in that interview hasn’t moved an inch: a plan you can maintain beats a plan that’s perfect.
