Welcome to Kick in the Breeches, a blog at the crossroads of travel and lifestyle design.
When I started blogging 10 years ago the idea of professional bloggers didn’t even exist.  When I started my current blog while living in Korea, I had no idea that one day want to be a part of that group.  I started my blog, DriftingFocus, as a personal travelogue about living on Jindo, a very rural island off the southwestern coast of South Korea.  Eventually, it evolved to include personal content, and when I moved …

Today marks the beginning of my attempt to go one full month without eating any kind of sugar-based sweets. As I mentioned in the post where I originally planned this, I have a bit of an addiction to sugar-sweetened foods, and I feel that they have more of a hold over me than I am comfortable with. Thus, in order to help loosen that grip, I have decided to go one full month without eating sugar-based sweets of any kind. No gummi bears, no cupcakes, no cookies, …