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Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
Women face harder choices —
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Parenting Taboos – Great TED talk!
Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit — and why they should. Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike.
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Loving What You Hate: Accepting your most despised physical traits
Loving What You Hate: Accepting your most despised physical traits. This post really doesn’t tell you how to make peace with the part of you that makes you feel less than perfect but it’s a good starting point to think about it — and if the answer is to learn to accept it and live…
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This is not a detour – It’s a change!
Walking out of Gold’s gym today after a good workout I saw this: ‘When you are ready to change, you will…” I think this is so true because you really do have to think of it just like that — it’s a change, a shift in how you live — a change is not temporary.…
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General Thoughts for the Day
A few random thoughts to post before I go workout: We went to see Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at Adventure Theater — and in the show there was a line that said – Rudolph, you can’t run from your problems. Right after that line, a little girl in front of us asked her Mommy…
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Gratitude: The Wonder Drug
Gratitude: The Wonder Drug Thanksgiving, as its name attests, is a time for us to be grateful for the things we have—whether it’s a loving family and friends, health, material wealth, a decent job or good child care to make our juggles go more smoothly.But giving thanks isn’t just a custom that we should do…
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Power Workout
Frost greeted me on my car windshield for the first time this season as I headed out the door this AM. And although I happen to be one of those people that like the chillier weather, I can’t say I like to see signs of it at 5AM. I had to find my car scraper…
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Who’s that girl?
I found this picture on my hard drive the other day. It was taken April 2009 — about a year after starting my journey. The reason I am sharing it is to show you that nothing happens overnight and making incremental changes really can make all the difference. For me, working regular fitness activities into…
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Some Amusing Signs from the Rally
Before the speeches and music kicked off, rally-goers amused themselves by checking out each others’ signs. And there were some doozies. Sanity Is A Pre-Existing Condition I can see America From My House. I Came Here Illegally. I Went 5 mph Over the Speed Limit On I-95 Free Hugs from a Militant Atheist with a…