About Me
I’ve spent the last year spending as much time as possible with my mother. Mom’s gone now and my heart is broken, she passed 9 weeks ago. Her passing was a shock in the moment, in hindsight I can see my head was in the sand. She had been struggling for some time but always […]
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People are surprised to hear I’ve had a blog for almost twenty years, long before joining Facebook in 2007. It was a small group of friends, who wanted to keep in touch, that prompted the blog to start. I’ve been online long enough that doing so was rather private. Few people had the technology,
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My last year as been a time of change for me. Everything changing at the same time seems almost fitting, in a chaotic type of way. As I pass into my fifties, being “older,” I say goodbye to many things that seemly belong to my pre50’s life. I’m not really giving up anything major, occasional
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Blogger derailed or “Where’s Waldo” I feel at a loss right now, I’ve had so much time away from this blog without connection, it is like meeting up with an old friend and not knowing where to start when they ask, “How’s it going?” To make the whole process a wee bit easier for
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Testing my Genes: Is it Luck or Fitness? Regular readers know I have been told how “lucky I was” for my “thin” genes. Many of my fitness friends actually tell me they hear the same, “you are so lucky to be naturally thin” from their friends and family as well. Of course, my readers also
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I find that I am reflecting a lot about my level of fitness and how things have changed in the last few years. As my readers know, I have been involved in fitness since my early twenties, longer if you count working around our farm growing up. In the last few days I have really
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When I was several years old we moved from a large city to a small Vermont town near the Canadian border. Adjusting to this new farm family life took some time but soon I found myself taking full advantage of the education that homesteading would give her. Early lessons, after school activity, came from both
Pieces of the Past I have been extremely consistent with my nutrition and fitness, as I dress I can see changes which I like. One change, however, reveals a piece of a past moment in time that my family recalls with a laugh and no second thought. I’d become upset hearing about a family, who
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