This comic is the first in a series drawn by professional comic and GFE reader N8 (sound it out) especially for The Great Fitness Experiment! I can’t tell you how excited it makes me that I have my own illustrator – I’d put it on my business card if I had any. Look for more …
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(Image unavailable to do extreme prejudice. I searched for an hour and couldn’t find any unoffensive pictures to appropriately illustrate this story. Which is a story in and of itself.) In one of the saddest examples that perverts will use anything to justify their crimes, a pastor (a pastor!) recently explained that the reason he …
My friend E is a medical miracle. Several weeks ago she was struck down by a bacteria that on Friday made her feel flu-ish and by Monday had her in a coma that the doctors said she would not come out of. Emergency surgery that required a team of 12 doctors, several near misses in …
Puppies! Kittehs! Dancing rainbows! You know I still have a soft spot for Lisa Frank. Here is your homework assignment: You are given a Lisa Frank-esque rainbow with six colors (unicorns optional); you are to cut out the rainbow, write your name on the fluffy smiling cloud end and then on each of the colors …
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See? It’s so easy even hamsters can do it. Raise your hands if you have meditated this month. At all. I’m serious. I want to see hands, people. Now, how many of you have meditated every day? For all of you that lack the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum, I am not raising my …
Today I experienced one of those weird occurrences that have baffled me ever since I seriously got into fitness – call it the Bermuda Triangle of Exercise, if you will. Just like Amelia Earhart – but less heroic and revolutionary and without the rubber helmet (just what exactly was that supposed to protect you from …
“Chips and a rice krispie treat!” My first-grader chirped happily. “That’s what you had for lunch?” I asked incredulously as the preschooler started the tantrum process (everything must be equal in this household) and the baby took up a chorus of “Chip! Chip!!!!” “Oh yeah, and a chocolate milk.” (Note to self: the mystery of …
Think hard – when was the last time you saw a high dive outside of the Olympics? Our local pool sure doesn’t have one. Indeed, the last time I can remember seeing one was in my high school pool when I was on the diving team for about two seconds. (Although I stuck around long …
Woman, to friend: I can’t believe you are going to have to buy her all new clothing! Friend: Well, I’m not going to obviously. I mean, she will just have to live with it. She tried on those clothes at the mall when we bought them over a month ago and they fit just fine …
“Who Wore it Better?” is a common fixture in today’s gossip rags and sites but it’s usually limited to people old enough to (theoretically) be responsible for their own fashion choices. However, to feed our bottomless celebrity fashion appetite, some are taking the fashion fights from the merely twee set down to the simply wee …
