Pssssst. Can I tell you a secret? I’m consumed these days by the idea of getting my personal training and/or group exercise credentials. I am just so passionate about health and fitness, and so curious to learn more. I’ve dreamed about getting my certificate for years, even putting it on every dream board (here’s one from 2011) and bucket list that I’ve ever created. So what’s stopping me? Not knowing what to do with the credentials if I get them {Read More}

<whiny post> I never really believed that pregnancy or mommy brains were real phenomena. And when I heard people bitching about how busy their post-baby lives were, I often wondered if they were victims of the busy trap. Mea. Freaking. Culpa. The last 6 months for me have been a cascading experience of a million little mistakes. None so big as to threaten my job, my relationships or otherwise, but in the aggregate, these little mistakes sure add up to {Read More}

I’m not a huge fan of resolutions, but I do like goals. I find that they make me push harder than I might without a plan, and since I hate failing, they make me grind it out when I’d rather quit. So, here’s the current fitness plan for 2013 (a little more manageable now that Audrey is, gulp, 5 months old and not really a newborn): On March 23rd, I’m doing my first post-baby run: the Winter Park 10K Road {Read More}

More than a year ago, I gave Paula Deen a pretty rough review for the way she announced a very serious diagnosis, and what she planned — at least publicly — to do about it (see “What Paula Deen Should Have Said“). I lamented the fact that she didn’t use the spotlight to shed light on some staggering statistics about diabetes and obesity in our country. I wept over her flippant note to people about how she was just going {Read More}

On Tuesday, I set out to see if I could not complain for an entire day. I started strong. I even set an alarm with a little reminder. But by 10 a.m., I was off the rails and deep into the complaining zone. The experiment started because I couldn’t stop thinking about an interview we’d had on the Growing Bolder Radio Show (I’m an Executive Producer) with a guy named Will Bowen. A short description of his message: In 2006, {Read More}