Live Fit and Sore

Category: General Reflections

  • Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

    Women face harder choices —

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • A tribute to her Mom: Elizabeth Edwards

    What a wonderful tribute to her mother — and you can also tell how Elizabeth Edwards was able to prepare her kids for her passing. She dealt with it being honest, sincere and straight forward. Watch this and you can hear in her daughter’s voice how much she loved her children and family — I…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…