After teaching eight classes this week, I was a little worse for the wear. Sore knees, stiff lower back, but neither bad enough to really worry about. But I decided to be proactive about my back, so I got out the yoga mat and fired up an old favorite, Yoga with Adriene on YouTube.


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Tilly waiting patiently for breakfast:


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I learned a long time ago that worrying a lot is extremely unproductive and actually makes situations worse. I also learned people get really mad when you don't do a lot of performative worrying when they feel you should. And that being cautious with how you approach life is very different from worrying about it, and can prevent a lot of, well, ( Read more... )

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Unfortunately, I have a sad update from Bev ( Read more... )

Garrett and I love a good reality competition show, especially when the concept is silly but the show takes itself very seriously. And because he's a big fan of Christmas, you can imagine how excited I was to discover QVC's show The Ultimate Gift Wrapping Challenge. Hats off to whoever at the giant shopping network realized you can get people to ( Read more... )

I previously talked about how difficult it was to put together an all-oldies water fitness playlist, and I will say that starting out this morning, it was a little bit difficult to match my first song's beat. But after all that, I was really glad I did it. The reactions from the crowd were completely off the charts, and one woman even came up to ( Read more... )

Carrot eatin' queen!
Now we're sharing these orange things
And my meal we eat as one
They're all gone, now we're done

Chrissie and Ivy from water fitness asked if I could do a special theme day like all Beatles, and I said I'd never devote a whole playlist to one artist because it's not really fair to people who don't like that artist. I recently checked out someone's class and thought, well, I'm glad I like Fleetwood Mac because that's all there is today! They ( Read more... )

Sixteen years ago today I was at The Cuff, where you could find me most Thursdays for karaoke (actually called Beareoke) and Sundays for the Tea Dance. There was never as much dancing happening at that one as at The Timberline, but The Timberline closed ages ago and The Cuff is still going strong. But it was always a big, fun crowd. A great place ( Read more... )