Tag Archives: inspiration
Happiest Habitat: Just Keep Swimming
Lesson of the week/month/year-so-far? To trust myself when something in my life isn’t doing it for me (in this case, my old job), and when I think I can find something that will click. It might take a little while, and it’s certainly taking a lot of energy. By the time we factor my actual pay into the hours I put into planning practice, thinking about practice, and stressing out about practice, I am probably getting paid negative money. But I am happy. Continue reading
Small and in Charge
Doesn’t quite sound as impressive as “large and in charge,” does it? This past week, I assistant-taught my first dog training class, started as coach (not assistant coach, just plain ol’ Coach) for a group of 30+ high school rowers, … Continue reading
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Outfit of the Day… NOT.
Yesterday I talked about being in a comfortable place with my weight (which can, of course, be different than being in a comfortable place with your body – I want more muscles! But that aside…), and I promise I will … Continue reading
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Exer(size)
For the last couple of years, as my athletics have dropped away for various reasons (I rejected them, they rejected me, my bicycle chain rusted, the city was covered in ice, etc.), my weight has gone up. And I just tried not to be bothered by it, because what can you do? You can work out and eat better, and neither of those was really something I had brain- or life-space to pursue. But now the spring weather is back, and I’m spending time surrounded by high school girls who are working out 18,000 times more in an afternoon than I have been in a week (slight exaggeration), so I’m trying to do a little more. And then at a petsitting job this weekend, I stepped on the scale, and there was that number, my happy, healthy weight. Continue reading
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The things that keep me sane
Today, my friends, is a snarky, grumpy day. I don’t know if it’s the weather (gray, rainy, cold) or the fact that my wife is sick and I can’t do anything about it (hate feeling helpless like this, guilty that … Continue reading
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