Tellin’ Tales Theatre’s latest production, Food for Thought is described as a collection of epicurean solo performances about indulgences and diet...
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“Do you know anything about our concept?” asked our server at The Farmhouse as he poured us water out of a glass bottle with one of those old-...
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14 years ago, I was having an existential crisis of the parenting kind. Every day I did amazing things with and for my children and took great pleasur...
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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. H...
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(Proof that the author’s alarm is set daily!) Even the alarm doesn’t want to wake me up at 5 am. It refuses to ring, and thi...
Read More5 am Miracle for oldtimers who have given up on existence-like me.
They say multi-tasking isn’t good for you, that it just forces a person to switch gears in microbursts and do everything less effectively...
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There are a stack of notebooks of many shapes and thicknesses in a writer’s home. Books and blogposts may be written via electronic medium, b...
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There is less than one month until my first OCR (obstacle course race). This one is called the Badass Dash. At the time that I bravely registered fo...
Read MoreHow to train for an obstacle course race- gear, nutrition, training and attitude
Zumba at Aidas’s Fitness & Nutrition 1 hour of fast paced Latin and hip hop style dancing. Zumba is a very aerobic and energetic dance which...
Read MoreZumba burns calories and gets the step count up there! Rhythm helps but you can fake it.
When I first started my fitness odyssey in September, it soon became apparent that I would need some extra help staying motivated. I sought out fitnes...
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