First I want to thank all of your for your kind comments on Friday’s post.   I didn’t sit down to write about my past mental illness.  I had planned to just post the playlist and (as usual) I got carried away.  I was very nervous about letting that skeleton out of the closet free [...]

Gratitude Going back to the 4 wheels of the Hero-mobile, if I am going to choose to ride an unicycle, I try to choose GRATITUDE.  Why?  Again, it’s simple but not always easy. Gratitude = attitude. Without gratitude, I’ll most likely have a lousy attitude and a lousy attitude makes everything (including losing those last [...]

We are left today for Indiana and will be gone for just over three weeks. While I love to travel I always get a little nervous about getting derailed from my healthy lifestyle. I’m visiting family and my sister and parents both have home gyms. My sister also belongs to a gym and mentioned getting [...]

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 [...]

(source) I just finished 30 days of no-grains experiement  last week.  Surprisingly it wasn’t that hard although I wasn’t perfect.  I never am.  I ate popcorn a couple times and told myself it was a vegetable even though I know it’s not.  In an emotionally weak weepy moment, I comforted myself with a slice of [...]

My birthday is in one week.  A few months ago I boldly stated that I would be giving myself a pair of size 26 jeans for my present.  Instead, I think I’m going to just give myself some love because the size 26 isn’t going to happen at least not without ripping or suffocating.   [...]