• 29 Day Challenge — It’s on!

    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Permalink 0

    I worked out with Josh this morning.  He quizzed me on my dreadmill homework.  His ongoing goal for me is 20 minutes on the dreadmill daily.  He wants me to alternate my jogging sprint days with days walking on an increasing incline.  Of course, his quizzing took place as I was actually walking at a ...

  • “Live like you were dyin'”

    Friday, October 24, 2014 Permalink 0

    I’m less than two weeks out from my annual benefit.  The level of detail involved in maximizing people’s fun while raising the most money is my ongoing-minute-to-minute-never-ending-to-do-list.  Fall also marks Chicago’s official theatre season opening.  If I maximized my scheduling, I could see 9 new shows a week.  This is easily the busiest time of ...

  • 8 ‘easy’ ways to remarkableness

    Sunday, October 19, 2014 Permalink 0

    Richard is always sending me life nuggets via articles.  This one was particularly good.   8 Remarkable Things to Do with Your Life.  It wasn’t about finding the cure for cancer or how to become a billionaire.  It talks about finding joy in your life by living joyfully in simple ways.     Find your passion:  ...

  • I’d rather be limber than rigid

    Saturday, October 18, 2014 Permalink 0

    Reclining pigeon pose...OUCH! LADY IN THE ELEVATOR:  You’ve been working out with a trainer. ME:  Yes, I have.  I love it. LADY IN THE ELEVATOR:  I’m been watching you.  You’re very limber.  ME:  I work at it. Two years ago, no one would have called me limber... because I wasn’t.  I was very rigidity.  I hobbled out of bed.  ...

  • I’m falling for it

    Thursday, October 16, 2014 Permalink 0

    Fall is my favorite season.  Summer just whizzed past.  And it’s not quite the holidays.  Fall is like taking a study hall in-between two honor courses.  The pace is slower.  The cool weather encourages snuggling under a blanket.  With kids back in school, there is that adult self-satisfying smugness.  I look at the little darlings ...

  • It’s always darker at night

    Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Permalink 0

    It’s always darker at night. The other night I had insomnia.  It’s not an infliction that I get with any regularity.  It has more recently popped up a couple nights a week for an hour or two on each instance.  If I’m being honest with myself, it correlates with my coffee intake sneaking up.  I had ...

  • Let’s do this, Wednesday!

    Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Permalink 0

    I viewed the blood red moon from my roof this a.m.  It was underwhelming.  It looked like a distant, fuzzy, orangish circle.  I took a picture but it was even less impressive in a photo. To make the most of my roof excursion, I snapped a picture of day breaking.  Now, that’s something amazing to ...

  • Wharton’s masterpiece

    Monday, October 6, 2014 Permalink 0

    “Age of Innocence” was our most recent read in the Roaring 20s Book Club.  The movie with Daniel Day Lewis and Michelle Pfieffer is one of my top ten favorite movies of all time.  Tom hosted the book discussion at his house.  He has a projection movie set-up so we also screened the movie.  It ...

  • I did a handstand…twice

    Friday, October 3, 2014 Permalink 0

    Yesterday, I did this pose at yoga...twice.  Of course, I had a shirt on.  And I’m fluffier than this guy.  Plus, I only did it for a couple moments.  BUT I did it.  The action freaked me out.  I’m getting stronger.  My body is changing.  I’m not dropping significant weight but that was never my primary ...