I got invited to a party for the first time in a LONG time last week. It was to go to a friend’s house for small Christmas party. I hadn’t seen my friend in a long time, and she was one of my divorce pioneers. We spent many hours talking about knowing what the right […]
comfort zones
Proud.
Number 5 is twelve years old. She’s on the swim team, and in two weeks there is a swim meet called Age Groups here in Connecticut. Age Groups is a swim meet that many young swimmers in CT want to qualify for. You have to have certain qualifying times in order to go. Number 5 […]
Making A Deposit In The Bank Of Hard Shit
My ten-year-old went back to school for the first time today after being out of a classroom for just shy of a year and being homeschooled since September 2020. Now that the elementary schools are back full time and the K-8 kids are in school five days a week aaaand we are settled into our […]
The Marie Forleo Experience
On Monday night I went into New York City to see Marie Forleo speak. If you read Friday’s post, you know this was way out of my comfort zone for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that while I’ve been to the city many times (it’s only an hour away from […]
Safe Is Static. And Static Kind Of Sucks.
In my fitness course, I have a closed Facebook group. Every day I encourage my badass clients to post in the group. I don’t have any scientific data, but I would wager a bazillion dollars that the women who post, comment and interact on a consistent basis have more success than the women who rarely […]
#1384 — 10 Hours Until Go Time
Tomorrow I am running the Hartford Marathon. I am not a fast runner, but this is my sixth marathon and the second time I’ve done the Hartford Marathon. The first time I was as prepared as I’ve ever been, but I ran way too fast in the first half and was in the most physical […]