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(Getting To The) Moment of Truth
Photo credit: Steve Richey/Unsplash This weekend was such a mixed bag. Yesterday I had that great walk in the park. Last night some good longtime friends came over and brought us a beautiful dinner....
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Post. Op.
Pre-Op with my buddy. So, it finally happened: I had a cervical laminotomy, microdiskectomy and foraminectomy on Wednesday afternoon. I had been hoping hoping to avoid surgery, but after eight weeks of...
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Back In the World (Sort of.)
#throwbackthursday: sometimes I have to hold onto stuff. Little by little. I’m venturing out. I’m doing small things, both in and out of the house. Everything feels huge. HUGE. The first time I drove...
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Grateful.
a new day Yesterday was Thanksgiving day, and I had a lot to be thankful for. Just a few weeks prior, I thought I might have to bail on the holiday altogether, as I had been bailing on many things...
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My 5th Healthaversary is Coming: Hot Chocolate 5k with me!
Every January, I reflect back on January 2009, when I first started this blog. I think about how I felt back then. Scared, unhealthy, hopeless. And how far I’ve come. Even with this recent injury, I...
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Baby Steps, Baby Sweats, and Goodbye for Now
A couple of weeks ago I sweated for the first time since September. It was a gentle, beautiful, emotional and extraordinary experience. I went to a Nia class, which was one of the very first kinds of...
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Book Review: Ultimate Booty Workouts!
I’m going to be totally honest here. Normally, I would not be on the lookout for a book called Ultimate Booty Workouts. But I happen to think that its author, Tamara Grand, is FANTASTIC and so when it...
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The Long Road Back
photo credit: Unsplash/Sylwia Bartyzel Last night, I had a dream about trying to do a triathlon. It was a short, “fun” triathlon and I recall that maybe I just showed up, hoping to participate. But I...
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Plantar Fishy-what??
image: http://www.trufitusa. Ah, this blog has become such a litany of woes, I might as well just re-name it “I’m Getting Old, Falling Apart and Whining About It.” Seriously, though. Really? No sooner...
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Year of Pain, Year of Humble
Last week, after I spoke on a panel on reproductive stigma and justice, an audience member came up to me and said, “I know you.” I looked at her. I didn’t recognize her at all – a warm smile, brown...
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