Olympic Weightlifter to Triathlete (Fast Twitch to Slow Twitch)
Someone emailed me and asked if I would write about how my former sport of Olympic weightlifting translated into me becoming an endurance athlete later in life. Simply put: No translation. Lost in Translation. Apples and Oranges. But that is not completely true. Many don’t know the whole story of my previous-life athletic feats (and non-feats). […]
Why We Can’t Fill Our Cracks
When I made the decision to quit _______, I had reached the “up to here” point. I draw a long line to fill in the blank, because really, I have quit so many things at this point, you can fill in the blank. Binge Eating Legal Work Race Starts Writing a fiction book Writing another […]
Meredith: The Fat Shamer
Before I get into the visit I took into Crazy Town yesterday, I have to mention this. I don’t know if I wrote about the awesome fact that I killed 20 mile training run last week. TWENTY MILES, people. And yes, I am TOTALLY bragging about it OPENLY because if y’all know me… this is a huge […]
Giving up the Ghost with Sarah Hepola
I used to think that walking in high heels was difficult. Then I became a heavy drinker who wore high heels. Then I became a sober person. Not particularly in that order. I “celebrated” 18 months as a sober person a week or so ago. As a mile-marker, I had the honor of interviewing Sarah […]
It’s Good to Be a Bear
So I wrote an article a while back in Triathlete about when to know if you should say “no” to that race on the calendar. Decisions, decisions. As I was thinking about Chattanooga 70.3 (coming up in three weeks), I began to wonder what in the world I was doing with planning to race that. […]
The One Thing Today
If we feel healthy, we act healthy. If we feel well, we are kinder to others, we have more to give. It builds on itself. Happiness and health breeds MORE happiness and health. “BUT HOW DO WE GET THERE!? TODAY, I FEEL TERRIBLE!!!” When we FEEL terrible, other things also FEEL terrible. When things FEEL […]
The Life is Hard Checklist
People often don’t talk about what it is actually like to do the hard things in life. The hard things in life, we just do and we don’t really talk about them. My daughter came home today and lost her mind over the fact that we wouldn’t be attending “spirit night” at Mellow Mushroom, a local […]
Do You Want to Quit?
Someone sent me an email over the weekend. Actually, FOUR people did, about this same topic. Quitting drinking. I thought about it. And while I want to be VERY clear about a few things, nevertheless, I have decided to put myself out there, and go for this. I am starting a FREE addiction support group on […]
One Word
I have admittedly gone through a bunch of changes in the last year and a half, and most notably in the last year, I would say. (Giving up booze and quitting a legal career in search of another life that is completely uncertain–just to name a “few” changes.) And now, while I sit here on […]