Month: November 2019

Notice anything? Perhaps a small skip in days?  It’s funny how life steamrolls a person occasionally.  First, it was a book that NEEDED to be finished. I was neck-deep and knew I couldn’t go to …

This morning, I headed out to run a short errand and was passing the gas station when I decided, no, I’ll keep going and fill up the gas tank on my way back home.  About …

At around the beginning of this month, I made two commitments to myself – one body (the Orange Theory Extravaganza) and one brain (posting to this blog every day for the month of November). And …

There’s something to be said about keeping promises you made to yourself.  I don’t even remember what precipitated it, but three weeks ago I decided to attack Orange Theory head on after avoiding it ever …

I’m in the middle of my second week of hitting the Orange Theory workouts pretty hard and while I (almost) always appreciate the workouts afterwards, I don’t often WANT to go there. I go because …

Since I made fun of how I was showing my age in the blog yesterday, I figured today I would highlight the ways that getting older has made me a better person: If a book …

Ways I know that I’m getting older:  The snap, crackle and POP! that certainly isn’t breakfast cereal.  Walking into rooms and wondering why I’m there.  More often than not saying, Why yes, 4:30pm seems like …

Acrid smoke filled my kitchen, as I animatedly fanned to keep it out of the hallway where the smoke detector was located. I opened up the kitchen window and the sliding glass door – to …

This past Thursday, as I was on the rower suffering through the 2000m row benchmark workout, the instructor was telling us, “Know what the biggest muscle is that you need to get going? It’s your …