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Eating to Lose
Two weeks ago I told you all about getting my metabolism measured. They set me on a diet that should have me losing about 3/4 of a pound a week. At first, nothing much happened, except that I was astounded by how much I was encouraged to eat ( Read more... ) -
Let's Walk that Talk
This space has always been about my personal political rants and...inner personal journeys. It's been a little quiet here of late, as I've been rebuilding my life with brick of a different sort. In other words, I had to stop contemplating my damn navel long enough to do some stuff. So there haven't been a lot of revelations or rants of any kind ( Read more... ) -
Armstrong and Ken Lay: more in common than you think
Watching Lance Armstrong on the Oprah Winfrey Network last night (streaming on my phone), I was struck by a couple things that I just have to jot down here before I forget all about them. First of all, I'm not a passionate cycle sport follower. I watch some, I oogle the skinny, tight butts in spandex, and wait for the magic of obvious strategy to ( Read more... ) -
The Vent
So life has sucked a lot lately. Funny thing is, I'm actually feeling pretty hopeful and in control of it. Perhaps it's denial talking. Perhaps I'm just learning to let go shit I can't control and having faith in my own ability to navigate even the most gruesome of dark times ( Read more... ) -
Sleep is for pussies
I should be sleeping. There is a marathon of a drive later this morning. Yet, here I am. Lights off. Eyes wide open. Worrying about crap I can't take care of right at the moment. Processing shit I've been bombarded with by the fandamily for a week. They exhaust me. I fell asleep at dinner yesterday. It may have been mid-sentence, I'm not ( Read more... ) -
Simple Heroism
This last weekend was the MS Coastal Challenge Ride in Ventura, and my first taste at working one of these events as part of the massage team. Part of the prep had me visiting hardware stores and looking for things like plastic tarp, duct tape and disinfectant--which can be fun to ask for all at once. These events require us to see a lot of ( Read more... ) -
On Having a Different Drummer
I got two letters from my Girl's school. The first were the results of the STAR testing she was subjected to last spring. Had to grin. She's off the charts "proficient" at all things language arts--particularly her writing skills. Math is pretty much coming out at the head of her peers (rather than leaving them in the dust in the 99th ( Read more... ) -
Soap Bubble Barriers
Having a lot of revelations lately, changing my life and what I choose to put into it. The advantage to "losing" everything, is that you get to create your world from the inside out, the very atoms of it. It's been a journey, and I think I'm out of the black hole of life implosion and starting to move into explosive creativity. Almost. Breaks ( Read more... ) -
About the Career Redesign:
Some of you have asked about the whole massage therapist gig; some haven't, but I'm pretty sure you're curious. How does an accounting professor suddenly want to be somebody else? Well, it wasn't so sudden, and really it's all a plan for me to be more of a writer for hire than anything else. It also means fully accommodating myself for the first ( Read more... ) -
30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself
So I'm nosing around on StumbleUpon tonight, looking for something to "like" so I'm not just "that douchebag" promoting my new ASD Women's blog and ignoring everything else, when I tripped on this article: 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself.
Now, some of that advice was really ringing home, and some of it I learned the hard way recently, some of ( Read more... )