“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 […]
It’s amazing what blowing air can do to combat gravity and this past weekend I got to experience it firsthand. Indoor skydiving it’s called. Imagine a 12-foot diameter clear vertical tube that goes up three stories…and then imagine 140+ mph winds whipping through said tube…and then imagine flinging your body into this wind tunnel and […]
Guest post by Glenn, Michele’s husband. If you have a personal goal heed my advice and keep it to yourself – otherwise you may just have to follow through with it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against personal goals. I think finding something to challenge yourself with, especially something you aren’t quite sure is […]
A year ago this week I was bicycling through Vietnam – a dream come true. I had been captivated by the idea of biking the rice fields of Vietnam from the instant I saw pictures of such a trip on the REI adventure travel website nearly 10 years earlier when Glenn and I were looking […]
“Surround yourself with people that make you a better version of yourself” was the quote on the back of a guy’s t-shirt as we ran the Portland Half-Marathon last weekend. I had started studying the t-shirts people were wearing for this momentous event in an effort to distract myself from the fact that I was […]
I ride my bike to work several times a week, even in the rain and darkness of winter. It’s about 12 miles round trip and takes me about 35 minutes in the morning (lots of downhill) and 45 to 50 minutes in the evening (lots of uphill). For nearly 10 years I have worked in an […]
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 […]
