Let Go and LIVE

Finding my way in the world and other adventures
 
Let Go and LIVE

You Owe It To Yourself

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 …

The Small Things

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 …

Getting Wiser

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 …

Getting Older

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 …

Smoke

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 …

Suck it up

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 …

Okay, So I Totally Lied

Picture me moon-walking, ala Michael Jackson, because that’s what I’m doing: walking back (almost) everything that I said yesterday.  I took today off from Orange Theory.   I woke up just after 3 o’clock this morning …

Buddha Wisdom

On my wall of inspiration (actually, a magnetic whiteboard of inspiration, but that doesn’t sound as cool), I’ve got a meme stuck up there — “The trouble is, you think you have time.”  It’s attributed …