Life requires ongoing renegotiations with our mind, body and spirit. Of late, I’ve been on the losing end of that dynamic. I’ve arrived at a crossroads in my journey toward living a life more extraordinary.
Wakeup Call
Category Archives: Healthy Eating
Am I Worthy?
Like many of you, I’m beyond excited for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccine is a light at the end of the tunnel. It means less worries about the health and wellbeing of myself and loved ones. It also represents the ability to safely and ethically travel again. Glenn and I feel confident […]
Back in the saddle again.
Somehow, Glenn and I found ourselves in Hawaii recently. A month or so ago we sat slumped in our living room chairs, staring mindlessly at our iPads after a long day at work. It was dark, cold and rainy. Again. “I want to go on a trip,” Glenn suddenly proclaimed. “Me too!!” I replied. We […]
What losing over 130 pounds has taught me about food.
I gained over eleven pounds while we were on our recent around-the-world trip. It honestly would have been a lot more if it hadn’t been for all of our extensive adventuring and activity. You see, Glenn and I were in vacation mode when it came to our food choices during our 6-months of travels. Meaning, […]
Chile’s Lake District left quite an impression
Chile’s Lake District is a very dangerous place and not just because of the looming active volcanoes. Known as the Región de Los Lagos in Spanish, much of the Lake District was populated by thousands of German immigrants in the mid-1800s (following the eventual subjugation of the indigenous Mapuche people by the Chilean government) and […]
Getting to the heart of the matter
* GUEST POST by Glenn, Michele’s husband A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams – John Barrymore None of us are ageless. Eventually we will all be limited in one-way or another by age or circumstance. Not an especially cheery thought but something that I’m sure has crossed all of our […]
Making the jump
“My heart’s not in it.” That is what a friend said to me the other day as we were discussing our mutual journey of getting healthy and losing weight. Her comments got me to thinking about all of the times in my life when my heart also wasn’t in it. I’ve certainly spent more time […]
Learning to love healthier food
It has taken me a while to learn to love eating healthy food – especially vegetables. I’m nibbling on cut up orange bell peppers and sundried tomato hummus as I write this. That would never have happened five years ago! As a latchkey kid I grew up eating a wide variety of “TV dinners.” This meant […]
