Being an Artist… and Not Starving

Today is a celebration.  Episode 30 (!) of the podcast was released with the amazing, Jeff Goins, author of Real Artists Don’t Starve.  I LOVE JEFF.  (In a mentor, fan-girl sort of way, of course). Jeff inspired me early in my writing with The Writer’s Manifesto–which was a short eBook that basically said to quit writing […]

Career, Escape and Substance Abuse: Chicken or Egg?

I am a sober person and also a recovering attorney. I struggled for many years with drinking and a lot of it was compounded in law school, and on as I continued to practice law. But I drank before law school, too.  So which came first? Chicken or the egg?  Are lawyer-types naturally prone to […]

Meredith, a Marathon, and a GIVEAWAY: Week 2 of 17

Week 2 of the official marathon training is sort of in the books (I still have a short run tomorrow.)  I am doing my best to update everyone at least once a week on the training and more since this is truly a big effort on everyone’s part, especially with the fundraising. For those of […]

Starting & Pain. Health & Happy.

No one ever knew how hard it was to START. I don’t know if I wrote about THAT as much as I talked about moving forward. I talked about a lot of things, but I look back on the beginning of the health and fitness journey – and I just remember PAIN. I remember physical […]

Fixing the Engine

I remember seeing a hateful comment from someone back in 2014 that went something like this:  Swim Bike Mom has this fast bike, but she’s so fat it’s not like it’s going to translate to any speed. Yeah, okay. So that one stung. But then I remember thinking:  Well, you’re a jackass, speed is still speed […]

A Fat Heart

This week has felt like one giant lesson in focusing on what I can control–and letting the rest go. [And coming from a control freak, this is a really hard thing to do.] I have spent the last twenty-seven years more or less on some sort of a diet. And like someone who escapes a […]

Use YOUR Yardstick

Progress is a funny thing. Progress is also difficult thing to define. (Yes, really). If you are training for triathlons as a wife and mom of three kids, and spending time away from your kids, is that really progress? What if you are working on your marriage so damn hard that you never hit your […]

One of Those Days

I’m having one of those days. Those days where you are doing side planks with leg lifts (um, WTF, owwwww), and you crumple to the floor in tears, for no apparent reason. Well maybe not you, but me.  Me did.  I would call it hormonal, but that’s really not the case. I’ve had a lot of […]

Teetotaler

And it’s here. Today marks one year without a drink, and I celebrated with my “teetotaler” tattoo. On this day last year, when I decided to quit, I had not crashed at rock bottom. But… I HAD crashed into the bottom so many times, my life was like a trampoline—up up up, boom? ! Up […]