He had me lifting weights and so tired that I didn’t even want to go out with my friends by the time we were done For college graduation, my friends and I were giving ourselves a graduation present. We planned a two-week cruise around the Bahamas. After being students for four years, we hadn’t had […]
I rolled my eyes, but I laughed I had been going to our local gym for almost a year, when I was approached by this man who told me he was a personal fitness trainer. He offered to give me some pointers on ways to move that would help pinpoint the few trouble spots I […]
I recently found out that I had a rare genetic disorder. I didn’t even know we had this in our family, and it scared me a little. I knew I had come from a family of obese persons. I just thought it was the way we were built. You can’t imagine how I felt when […]
I have been overweight my entire life, although when I look back on my high schools days, and even when I got married, at least I wasn’t morbidly obese. Over the years, I can count the number of times that I have lost a significant amount of weight. My first year of teaching, I lost […]
In our city, we have two universities and a pretty big community college. All three places have at least one gym. In fact, the biggest school has a number of gyms, and there are workout classes of every description available. You can take yoga classes. You can take workout classes set to music. You can […]
Our little city has an abundance of yoga studios. Until recently, if you wanted to take a yoga class that was close to home, you would have no problem doing so. The local gyms have yoga classes along with workout classes. There are people all over the city who are the hippy type and get […]
About a ten minute drive from my house, there is this adorable little complex with several little shops and such. There is a pretty large restaurant, which I guess is the hub for the building. Then, there is a jewelry store, an art shop, and a couple of other little places. Also in there is […]
My job covers the cost of my health insurance, and I am truly grateful for that. The job I had previously covered the majority of my health insurance, which was fine, except that the stupid health plan was so awful that I was never able to get them to cover anything. In the four years […]
I try to be a good friend in any way that I can. I know that it’s difficult to be an adult these days so I try to help my friends whenever I can lend them a hand. Sometimes, I try my best but ultimately wind up doing them a huge disservice anyways. Recently, I […]
When I was going into this global pandemic I really thought that it would be a few weeks of discomfort and then we would all go back into the world like nothing has happened. I didn’t expect that it would be such a long and ongoing issue. In fact, it is gone on for months […]