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Goal Post #2 In May 2017 I started walking 15-20 mins on my lunch break and going on bike rides after work. My body was so out of shape I noticed improvements right away. 2015 is the first year in my adult working life that I’ve had the luxury of a whole hour for lunch. Those first two years I positively reveled in sitting or napping in my car alone at lunch (introvert much?) If you barely have the time eat on your lunch break, food is your priority and I would never tell you to limit that for a walk. For three years I also worked nights so I understand your 2am lunch isn’t the best time to take a stroll. If either of these is your situation, look for other places in your day to take a short walk - even 10mins can make a difference in how you feel. For example, when I worked nights I could have gone on a short walk or bike ride after work before going to bed each morning. One of my sisters who used to work nights said she'd take 20mins on her lunch climbing up and down the...

Goal Post #1 Growing up I was super active: swimming almost every day in summer, biking everywhere, climbing trees, and weekly gymnastics lessons . Unfortunately, none of that prepared me for how my body started deteriorating with age. Rather than approach things constructively, I decided this was just how getting old works and became less and less fit. By the spring of 2017 I was far from healthy. Walking more than a mile made my legs hurt, my back completely seized up twice a year, I needed help moving our coffee table off the carpet, and suffered heartburn multiple times a week.   Like most people, my weight has fluctuated over the years. When I got my driver's license at 16, I added ten pounds to my actual weight. My logic was if I gained weight, no one could look at it and think “Yeah right, 20lbs ago.” I also didn’t want to have a mythical “driver’s license weight” that was some unattainably low number because I was still a kid. I figured I’d get heavier and...

My friend David is a poet. He has a poet's soul and a poet's hunger and he doesn't drink which means he has more than a poet's proliferation. It's incredible. I just checked out his blog and he writes every day- every day a poem or an observation and I know that he also writes every day off line on various projects. I love writers, (see most of my closest friends) but I hate writing. This may sound strange. I keep trying to write that novel---or short story or screenplay--- but transitioning from my first medium- poetry, to this new and prose is clumsy and difficult. Especially after such a long estrangement from both. In college my best short stories were like poems. Professors and classmates would always say one of two things about my short stories: "this could be a poem" or "this could be an excerpt from a novel." At our hooding, one of my professors introduced my as a poet. I don't know when I have ever felt so humbled. I still don...

Everyone is beautiful after a workout. Before, we're jumpy, hot, jostling gear and the sticky tiredness of daily stress. You can almost hear the internal cycle: monotonous lists of other things to be done--> reasons to work out--> what I hate about my body--> reasons to work out--> important tasks waiting. After, breathing is slower, deeper. Tension is erased. You can see the naturalness of physical exertion. How good it is for us. Everything is clean. Everything is calm. No matter how old I feel,  if I feel gross in body or just super tired. If I look around, every face shows a peace that has been earned, every muscle a grace that has been given.

okay, So, anyone who loves TV, plot line, character development and anything to do with anything... has not been watching Weeds for the past 3 seasons, BUT- Oh my GOD! Nancy Botwen finally evolved! really, REALLY? I know- I've been waiting 3 seasons for her to stop being a selfish bitch and okay, props. Thank you writers. And whoever the kids playing Shane and Silas are- wonderful acting- especially Shane (sorry Silas, I still think you're great). This leaves me with my last prop of the night. Andy. Andy. Andy. I love you. You're character is the consummate good guy and that performance was amazing.

In honor of this I am posting Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack from, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don’t need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

I'm as happy as the next person the Yankees won the Pennant, but I have to ask what was going wrong with the Angels? The bottom of the 8 th was full of ridiculous mistakes and to be honest, they didn't look very accidental to me. First, when fist baseman missed a catch of a bunt he was holding his glove wrong for that angle. Then watching the pitcher lobbing the ball over the head of the first baseman only to fire it perfectly when Derek Jeter made his hit- I'm sorry they lost but how they lost bugs me more.