Hello auld friends and new! It’s NYE, and it’s been nearly nine years since I first started this blog. Whew. If this is your first time here, you likely heard about this blog because of [this post] chronicling my first 30 days sober. If you’re considering participating in Dry January tomorrow, it’s quite a ride,…… Continue reading New Year’s Eve 2024
Six Weeks of CrossFit at Fifty
It’s been around six weeks since I started CrossFit, and it’s been… great. I look forward to my M/W/F midday workouts like I’ve never looked forward to movement in my life. It’s not a heat-seeking missile feeling – like the anxious anticipation leading up to the first glass of wine at the end of the…… Continue reading Six Weeks of CrossFit at Fifty
Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD
As of today, Memorial Day 2024, I’ve completed four CrossFit 1:1 onboarding sessions, participated in three group CrossFit classes (with modified moves) at my local “box” (AKA, CrossFit gym), and sort-of completed three WODs (workouts of the day) while traveling for work and my uncle’s funeral on Martha’s Vineyard. I also did a hot yoga…… Continue reading Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD
Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!
I went to my third CrossFit personal training session yesterday. There are only four onboarding personal training sessions, then I’ll be kicked out of the nest. I think I’m expected to join the classes which are filled with flocks of insanely fit, competitive and passionate CrossFit cult members. Unless I decide to continue to pay…… Continue reading Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!
I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit
On Monday April 29th 2024 I went to my very first personal training session to introduce me to CrossFit, and I decided to chronicle my experience here because I googled “starting cross-fit at 50” and “anti-diet CrossFit” all I could find were before-and-after videos all centered on shrinking body size, or CrossFit marketing materials about…… Continue reading I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit
New Year’s Eve, 2019
I’ve never liked NYE. When I was a drinker it just meant my favorite restaurants and bars were packed full of “amateurs”. As a non drinker – and this is my fourth sober NYE – it’s been a very quiet, very boring night. I’ve never bothered to plan anything, and my husband certainly hasn’t planned…… Continue reading New Year’s Eve, 2019
Like sands through the hourglass…
I’m 3.3 years sober and about to turn 46 years old on August 14th. I have zero preconceived notions about what ‘being 46’ should look like for me. My husband and I don’t have kids, so there aren’t obvious norms to chase after. This is fine, though. Fine, and even fun. What’s to come in…… Continue reading Like sands through the hourglass…
An open letter to Brene Brown.
Dear Brene, You recently wrote a beautiful Facebook post about your 23rd sobriety anniversary. You reflected on the fact that getting sober was possibly the central, early decision that gave you the power to make a huge impact on the world (and, with it, me): …right after the Netflix special launched, someone asked me about…… Continue reading An open letter to Brene Brown.
Writing for readers?
For about a year I’ve been thinking about re-writing this whole blog. Archiving the posts to-date and just starting over. This blog has been insanely therapeutic for me, but it may be time to switch gears. There are a couple of ways I could approach the project: Write a how-to manual for quitting drinking and…… Continue reading Writing for readers?
I opened a bookstore (gulp).
Hello Fatty Readers! It feels like it’s been an entire lifetime since I’ve been here. Way back (three months ago, ish) I wrote a post just documenting some ideas I’d had for various widgets the world needs – totally unrelated to quitting drinking and dieting. I hit publish on that post because I was sick…… Continue reading I opened a bookstore (gulp).
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