The nice folks at the The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sent me this awesome infographic to share with you guys last month and with all of the crazy that had happened around here at that time, I dropped the ball and never posted this. I realize Thanksgiving is all but…
I’ve spent the past three weeks holding my breath. Seemingly out of nowhere, our nanny told me she was heading to Poland the week after Thanksgiving, the same week we’d also taken off of work. I thought that was wonderful; she still has family there. She then told me later in the day she would…
I am still With Boot. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a Shrinking Violet, but I swear on all that’s good and holy I hate attention for attention’s sake and walking around on crutches with a bum foot is just that. Just now, in the line at the Jimmy John’s in my…
Sigh. I have a stress fracture in my left foot. I’m going to be on rest – on crutches – for 6-8 weeks. Maybe 4-6 if I get this quasi-experimental (read: not covered by insurance) laser treatments. I went into the doctor’s office yesterday thinking I was going to get some advice and scolding about…
Left over from my pregnancy was a wicked, wicked-ass sweet tooth. If you’d asked me pre-AG,what made up my Achilles’ heel, I would have told you that if it started with “P” and ended in “-otato,” I wouldn’t care how you prepared it. SERVE. IT. TO. ME. With salt. Now? I can’t tell you the…
Very very soon, I’ll be taking a vacation. We haven’t had a vacation since June 2009, and a word of advice for anyone without kids who thinks maternity leave is like a vacation? It. Is. Not. I will tell you a not-so-secret: we’ve known about this trip since January, when I was all sorts of…
Yesterday in spinning class, the girl next to me rushed out with 15 minutes left to go. A couple of times I’d glanced her way to make sure she was OK. You never know really what to do in those instances: she was new to spinning, and when someone is new to spinning class, the…
The most I’d hoped for when I began to recover from sinus surgery was no longer having constant nasal drip. (Wow! This blog is sexy! SHAPE magazine may totally be rethinking this lovely honor!) I had no idea what an immediate difference it would have on my workouts. Or, really, the rest of me. For…
I use the word “aspirational” a lot in my work. The marketing world is a funny place, especially when you’re someone who makes the sausage and, therefore, knows how it’s all made. So you’d think I’d be smart enough to be immune to magazines, blogs and products that are all marketed to people like me…
This morning I went in to, literally, have my nose sucked out, the second-to-last appointment I’ll have with my surgeon as this whole sinus surgery adventure comes to a close. And oh my stars. I really and truly am amazed by how much I wasn’t breathing before. Or at least well. My entire world feels…
Next week I’m having sinus surgery – septoplasty, turbinate reduction and endoscopic sinus surgery, which all sort of sounds like the same thing but I guess is not. For years I’ve had the world’s worst sinuses – hyperbole much, sure – and without fail, any time a cold goes around, I end up with a…
I just agreed to run the New Orleans Half Marathon in March with AB Chao, Linda and Eliza. It’s possible that I need my head examined, but there is something symbolic about running a half-marathon almost a year to the day I had Abigail. Which, coincidentally, was a year to the day I ran the…
I note in the sidebar that one of the things I love most is Clean Eating magazine. I used to subscribe to Oxygen magazine just so I could get the recipes – I love the lifting routines, but to be honest, I can only take so many of the copious supplement ads. It’s a little…
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This sits proudly on my desk. I love it so much.
I saved up and planned for these puppies. Some of the best money I've ever spent. I love these more than I can say.
I decided to try enhancement products when I was training for my second marathon this year. I chose these and love them.