One of my favorite things about blogging is making new friends.  Michelle was one of the first people to email me through my blog and I’m so glad she did!  Michelle is hilarious, witty, super duper encouraging, honest, and COMMITED to her family and her health.  She is definitely a Girl Hero! Michelle works as [...]

My cat, Sunny (who I affectionately call Meow Cow), and I watched  the cold rain fall all morning. While it was cozy inside, it was too cold and wet to exercise outside.  In fact, I didn’t even want to cross the lawn to my garage.  Don’t judge.  :)   So, I took a living room [...]

As some of you have read, I decided to change the name of my blog to Girl-Heroes because I realized without so many girl heroes in my life I might still be locked in a closet depressed gorging myself on Krispi Creams or worse. One of my girl heroes is my dear friend Martha.  Martha [...]

The other day I had to go to the DMV.  Although the visit left me frustrated, I was actually reminded of a few important lessons of health. 1.  It was a cold Monday morning when I drove up to the DMV and saw a line that wrapped around the building.  I was a blink away [...]

Sometimes I amaze myself.  Seriously I didn’t know it was possible for one person to eat half their body weight in stuffing at one sitting.  For as long as I can remember, I’ve stuffed myself with stuffing and other festive foods every Thanksgiving.  Every year.  The night before I always tell myself this year is [...]

I’ve missed you and I’ve missed blogging. I thought Thanksgiving would be a perfect day to get back to blogging.  There’s nothing like eating 4000 calories then sitting down at my laptop to pontificate on and on about the importance of sane meals.    Seriously, I was thinking about all I have to be thankful [...]

You may be familiar with Stephen Covey’s rock analogy.  If not it goes something like this. Take a jar and fill it halfway with sand.  Next add some small pebbles.  Is is full?  Now try to squeeze some big rocks on top.  Do they  fit?  Probably not….at least not very many.  It’s an object lesson [...]

We returned home from the Sequoia National Forest Monday evening.   Our trip was lovely.   I’m missing the simplicity of our days spent under the majestic  trees.  A full grown Sequoia is quite a sight to behold.  And since I’m prone to seeing the world through analogy, their massive thousands-of-years old trunks spoke to [...]

Today we are going to the Sequoia National Forest.  We are going to the same campground that we visited  last year where we had a fantastic site.  Not only were we surrounded by dozens of beautiful Sequoias, there was a great hill right behind our site that I used for my workouts.   This time [...]

Like many girls my age Dirty Dancing is a nostalgic peg of my youth on which some fond memories of adolescence hang. I was too naive to even pick up on the questionable choices of some of it’s characters.  Instead, I resonated with Baby’s careless sense of adventure and her feelings of being a misunderstood [...]