Via recommendation, I I have now listened to my first episode of Finding Mastery: Conversations with Michael Gervais. It was a good one. (Obviously I can’t speak to the podcast on the whole.) He was interviewing Abby Wambach, a former professional soccer player (highest all-time scorer, regardless of gender) and Olympian. Many pieces of the … Read more
“You can’t judge someone’s health by their weight.” This is mostly true. Super-skinny people sometimes just have high metabolism. I know a handful of people who eat well and are very slender. (There is at least as much vitriol towards the very slender as there is towards the obese.) Sometimes slightly chunky people are just … Read more
What if we respected aging instead of dreading and denigrating it? (I believe we only denigrate it because we fear it.) What if being in one place for 30 or 40 or 50 (or more!) years meant you were a source of history and information? A wealth of knowledge? What if grey was just another … Read more
Sophomore year of college, I went deaf in my right ear. Not completely—I have about 90% hearing loss. (It was from a mistreated ear infection—meds were for the vertigo, not the infection. Steroid treatment brought back the little I have. When it stopped working, the treatment ended, and that’s where it’s been for 24 years.) … Read more
People eat a lot. Depending on your schedule, you could eat six or seven (or more) times a day. Quantities aren’t generally small (or moderate) either. All of those meals and snacks? They don’t have to be amazing. Many people eat junk often enough that isn’t all that tasty because it’s handy or “should be” … Read more
We frequently see changing one’s mind as a weakness, when really, we should support people who do better when they know better. I know a solid handful of people who, in the last couple of years, have pretty substantially changed their point of view on a variety of impactful topics. The problem is—often, we reject … Read more
Last night, The Kid approached me with urgency. “Mom! You have to do laundry!” Turns out, he was down to one clean pair of shorts. I do the laundry, but it’s his job to stay on top of it and let me know when he’s running low on socks, underwear, short, or pants. (He has … Read more
Things about me that make me “weird”: don’t watch TV don’t eat meat don’t eat much fried or sweet food don’t drink coffee don’t drink alcohol rarely drink other delicious crap (I miss you, chai latte!) avoid plastic don’t typically spend much time, energy, money on “girl” things (hair, makeup, clothes, shoes, purses) I have … Read more
Every now and then, I read or hear something that takes a concept I am familiar with and puts it in a new light, adds a new twist, creates more depth. There was one from Where Should We Begin just a week ago, and today, there’s another. It becomes a conversation about entitlement and deprivation. … Read more
When I moved to Arizona 16 years ago, I was a pretty conservative food consumer. I didn’t eat many foreign foods (Americanized or not). Some Polish (see: weird last name heritage), some Italian (see: married to the Pole), Chinese as long as it came in one of those highly-recognizable paper boxes. Tacos. In grad school, … Read more