On Self-Care

I’m thinking of becoming one of those fancy lifestyle gurus, with a blog that tells you, the ignorant reader, how much better your life would be if only you did as I told you. I think my whole life has been building toward this point. Why am I suddenly so confident? Easy! I have changed … Continue reading On Self-Care →

On Sugar

We have been here before. I am not giving up sugar. That would be crazy. And sad. And, most relevantly, impossible. I am giving up on: sugary snacks, cakes, biscuits/cookies, desserts. No more cocoas at the end of the day. Just a little splash of chocolate here and there. It sounds hellish but…it’s not. Not … Continue reading On Sugar →

On 10lbs

We rent in Austin, TX, which – if not exactly a nomadic life – does mean that we’re never in one place quite enough to settle down. As renters go, we are moving up in the world – we now rent a nice little detached house in a fancy part of town. And we have … Continue reading On 10lbs →

On The Benefits of Exercise

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On New Year Resolutions

By the time you read this, my New Year resolutions for 2018 will probably be dead. But let’s, for the sake of a blog post, presume that this is still happening. At the start of the year, I put together a to-do list for the whole year. Things that, by the end of December 2018, … Continue reading On New Year Resolutions →

EXERCISE

As I climb on the (literal) treadmill each morning, I think of this sign and it has become my mantra. Eff exercise, indeed. And the exercise bike it rode in on.