ZOOM zoom zumba
After promising myself I would yet again start exercising, I finally signed up for a Zumba class. It sounded intriguing and fun. As far as I can tell, what makes it ZUMBA instead of some standard...
View ArticleOh Clumsy Me
It’s not because of the thinning bone density that my recent DEXA scan revealed (normal for a woman my age.) It’s not because I’m out of shape. In fact, I’ve been doing Jane Fonda’s new “Fit &...
View ArticleClumsy Part 2
I feel like a million bucks. I took a bath. I washed my hair in the sink. It took me two hours, and I’m exhausted! But it’s been a week and a half since I broke my ankle, and I’m starting to feel...
View ArticleBeauty and the Beach
Barbados was awesome, and I will write about it in the next day or so; right now I have the FIRST DAY BACK BLUES. You know, when all of the time you spent NOT thinking about the things you have to do...
View ArticleI Can Only Imagine
Saturday was tough. Three weeks since my Mom died. I was finally alone, Joey D. and Mikey D. are in Vegas at a business convention. Usually I cherish these times to just do whatever I want, in...
View ArticleNo More Resolutions
Happy New Year! It’s time to welcome 2012, and I’m modifying my blog post from New Year 2011; just as timely now as then: I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. What’s the use? They fade from...
View ArticleYoga saved my life
Well, that sounds pretty melodramatic, but it feels that way to me. I’m an exercise hater. I’ve done it on and off all my life, and have “dieted” on and off too. Trying to maintain my health and keep...
View ArticleWinter’s last hurrah
For a quintessential Adirondack winter experience, Lake Placid is a wonderful weekend trip. I know, let’s get some spring already! But last weekend I had a last hurrah winter mini (what we call a one...
View ArticleOver and over again and again
Why is it that we have to keep learning the same things over and over again? As much as we say to ourselves “I’ll never let that happen again,” or, “I’ve learned that lesson the hard way,” we seem to...
View ArticleOuch…what’s a rotator cuff anyway?
I slink in gingerly to the physical therapy facility, taking my place among the weak, the wounded, the rest of the people who wish they didn’t have to be there. I’m in week six of recovery from...
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