Recently, I have been exhausted. I can get through the work day, but my kitchen tells a story of a very tired mom. It’s easy to get upset at myself. There’s a lot of supposed tos floating around in my head. You need to work out! […]
About a month ago I went to the doctor and wrote a blog entry about getting healthy. I started the Mayo Clinic Diet. I chose this diet because I wanted to do something that wasn’t about just weight loss, but building life long good eating habits. […]
I have struggled for years, DECADES with my weight. I carried a little extra in high school, nothing significant. However, after I got married and started college, that’s when I really packed on the pounds. It just kept getting worse. Every year I would gain between […]
I took two brief walks today. I have a desk job and I use the computer recreationally. I don’t move a whole lot, and my body is paying the price. When I do want to move, on our weekend adventures, I find it a lot harder […]
As I age and my life continues to take shape, relationships ebb and flow. Some more than others. Some rarely ebb. How long do we hold on? This week, I silently ended a half a lifetime friendship. A complicated friendship, but at one time was an […]
Namaste. This morning, I accidentally tripped into a puddle of pleasant thoughts. I love it when that happens. As I was folding clothes between meetings, I was thinking to myself about how much I actually love having a family to fold clothes for. I know it […]
We constantly bicker, politicize and divide over trivial things, but there is still so much good and overwhelming kindness in people. Sometimes it takes a monumental element to bring us back to the things that really matter in our lives. There are always going to be […]
