Fighting For Yourself

May 9, 2013

I was in the garden yesterday afternoon with my six-year old daughter and she stood from the middle of a big pile of soil and said “I need to go get gardening gloves, mommy.” “No you don’t,” I admonished, “You need tougher hands.” As she considered her dirty, sore hands, I considered what I’d just [...]

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Meningitis – Do you know the signs?

May 7, 2013

I can remember this moment viscerally. Curled up on a hospital bed, shivering mightily against the chill with a 104+ degree fever while a doctor tells me to “keep still, round your back more, keep still” so he can insert a long needle in my back and withdraw some spinal fluid. He seemed to ping-pong [...]

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Dear Don Cherry

May 2, 2013

I have words for you sir. But I like your clothes.

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Read This.

April 28, 2013

Every once in a while I come across a book that makes me jump all up and down, lose track of time, and go out of my way to read. Or in this case, listen to. Because I drive a lot to get to where I work, I often listen to audiobooks. When they are [...]

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Gym Gawker’s Stream of Consciousness

April 4, 2013

I’m a self-confessed gawker at the gym. I cannot help it. It’s not just the gym, it’s everywhere. I once went on a trip with my (now ex)husband to Florida when we got lost in a seedy part of town. I was sitting in the passenger seat being no help at all and looking out [...]

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Patience is a Virtue (I do not have)

March 20, 2013

This week I had a friend tell me I “have no patience”. My response? Have you met me? NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. My entire life I have failed to move past the toddler stage of “I want what I want and I want it now”. But at least I no longer lay on the floor of [...]

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To This Day

February 20, 2013

Have you heard of Shane Koyczan? He’s a spoken word poet and … well, his recent video blew me away. Please watch it … I know that you might watch it and then not come back to read the rest of my story, which will follow below … but that’s ok because he can say [...]

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Hockey Lessons by Heather

February 13, 2013

In the distance I can see the end of hockey season. It’s a little blurry because, par for the course, it makes me cry. (How is that for slipping in a mixed metaphor for ya?) I get a bit over-involved in hockey season now that my son plays (and loves) the sport, I manage his [...]

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Leg Day

January 31, 2013

It was leg day today. That meant: 100 weighted lunges 50 weighted squat jumps  40 weighted quad rippers 50 weighted curtseys 50 deadlifts 60 weighted plié squats Stairs for 20min  Rest. I LOVE leg day. Wait, that’s a lie. I love having done leg day. There is nothing I love about squats and lunges. Wait, [...]

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What’s For Dinner: Happy Chickens & Weird Veggies

January 30, 2013

I have been a big (no pun) fan of The Biggest Loser since the first season. Maybe it’s all the puking and crying … but really, working out at the gym has never been the same since I realized puking and crying could be a part of it. I know that seems really S&M … [...]

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