“You’re not living up to your potential.” Those are probably the scariest words anyone has ever spoken to me and while they’ve ricocheted through my brain as long as I can remember, when a friend casually said them to me it was as if all the air had been sucked out of me. (Much like …
This is also a very important anniversary that Hallmark does not have a card for. September 11, 2001. Every year I can feel the vibrations of this anniversary for weeks before it approaches. When it finally arrives, it is almost a relief to cry a little and move on. No I didn’t lose a loved …
Do you or someone you love suffer from the following symptoms? – Attending only parties that serve salted nut rolls and Powerade. – Picking up 8 pairs of different (but still look pretty much the same) running shoes every evening. – Waking up alone to an empty bed and a note that says “8 miler, …
Read more “The Exercise Widow(er) Phenomenon [Coming to a marriage near you?]”
I’ll be honest: fashion is what really got me into exercise. I can’t wait for unitards to make a comeback! It wasn’t the runs in the dark in the middle of winter at 4 a.m and again at 10 p.m. It wasn’t leaving my son’s hospital bed to go do a high-intensity interval class instead …
Read more “What Finally Made Me Seek Help for My Exercise Addiction [Plus, prayers for Jelly Bean]”
This picture is simply too awesome to caption. I spent my Saturday night getting my aggression on: gouging people in the eyes, yelling “I’ll rip your larynx out!” and watching my best girlfriends get cornered by a bunch of threatening men. Makes your screening of Tron, The Legacy seems pretty lame now, huh? No, we …
Read more “Finding Safety in an Unsafe World [The Four Steps of Self-Defense You Need to Know.]”
Click picture to enlarge. I wish I had a source for this, it’s hilarious! Fragile. Tiny. Vulnerable. Weak. I’ll admit it: I liked being those things. For a long time (most of my life?), I enjoyed people grabbing my arm and cooing “Oh, I’ve never seen such a tiny wrist!” I liked that men got …
Read more “The Beauty of Strong Women [Rachel Cosgrove Experiment Results are in!]”
Willow Tree “Guardian“ “Noun: The evacuation of a dead child or organism.” Stillbirth. No warning at all, there it was right between “veterinarian: a person who practices medicine or surgery on animals” and “blunderbuss: a short musket of wide bore used for shooting at close range” as if dead babies are as pedestrian as ailing …
Read more “What I Mean When I Say I Have 5 Children [Talking about the loss of a baby]”
photo credit “Wow,” my psychiatrist looked up from her notes where she’d just written in my case history that I’d been sexually assaulted, pressed charges and sent him to prison, “you must feel so proud! And vindicated! And powerful!” I’d gone to see her to talk about medicine for my post-partum depression, not a court …
Not getting drunk-texted at 2 a.m. is one of the big perks of being an official grown-up (the closest I get these days is when the autocorrect feature on a friend’s phone sends me really random messages about Sydney and gum GymBuddyAllison!.) So when this grammatically challenged missive from a friend showed up in the …
Pre-race, post-potty – the high point of my day. The End: Shaking, incoherent, sobbing, vomiting and laying under all my blankets still in my sweat-soaked racing clothes: This was how my kids found mommy yesterday. The Beginning: “Sure, give me some of your pills!” Famous. Last. Words. That pretty much sums it up. But if …
