Author: laura

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 …

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 …

I have to admit, I’m not good at moderation. I desperately want to be, but it’s never seemed to be in my wheelhouse. A little means more, and more means all. It’s zero to sixty …

I’m home from work and waiting to leave for my Orange Theory class. If work and traffic cooperate, I usually have about 40 minutes in between the two. Time enough to take the dog out, …

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 …