The other day I was complaining about my thighs to a friend. (Don’t judge, we all have our insecurities and while I think I’m getting better about not vocalizing them it does happen sometimes.) After hearing me out, my friend cheerily replied to me, “You should love your thighs! You’re a woman! And real women …
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Pooping: You’re doing it wrong. What if someone told you there was a simple device that would solve every poo problem you’ve ever had? Constipation, hemorrhoids, UTIs, appendicitis, chilly cheeks (that is so a real problem) – all solved! You’d want to try it like rightthisverysecond, right? Which is how I found myself in the …
This my Aunt Barbara “mid-roar with a dollar bill in one hand and three musketeers in the other” as noted by my dad. Seriously have you ever seen ANYONE love any present this much?? Gift-giving ninja, I am not. I’m well intended and I try hard but I’m not one of those people who just …
A fist bump. Being alone at the gym is unlike being alone anywhere else. For one thing, it’s an oddly intimate setting for interacting with strangers. I mean, when’s the last time you all stripped down and got sweaty while singing to yourself on the subway? Or at church? Or the mall? (Don’t answer that.) …
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! Or Thursday!!! My day started out with a lovely run with some wonderful friends in the brilliant sunshine! The girls standing by me and I did 5k while the rest of the crazies more dedicated athletes, did a half marathon. Then we rounded up the kiddos and drove to my sister’s for the …
Snarky salespeople are also a great anti-depressant. This poststarted out very different than it ended. I was all set to write another slightly heartbroken post about how my sad was making me sad and the sadness was unrelenting but then I realized – in the course of writing this out – that maybe that isn’t …
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This is totally true. Scares the everloving crap out of me. Topless treadmill running has never been on my fitness bucket list but then neither was being a pro NFL cheeleader for a day or doing crunches on an underwater produce scale in an ice-cold pool for half an hour and I ended up doing …
Best kind of diet talk ever. 3-year-old gives himself a toilet pep talk and it is awesome. (click through to see video!) Seven things you are never supposed to talk about in a social setting, according to a recent episode of This American Life on NPR: How you slept, your period, your health (beyond a …
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I enlisted my eldest to help make the soup! He learned how to chop an onion. I learned how to stifle my giggles while tried to cry from said onion. Season’s first snow! Yesterday, blanketed in white, ended up being kind of a strange day. At first the kidlets were super excited to see all …
Power yoga may be my new favorite workout, if only because this happened this morning: There we were, an hour into a leg-quaking, arm-shaking class when the teacher told us to we were going to take a quick break to try something new. Having been to plenty of yoga classes in my day I immediately …
