Podcasts and Exercise

I do not like to exercise. I recognize the necessity, but I just don’t enjoy it. Several of my family members are work-out fanatics, including my husband and daughter. But they have not convinced me sweating is fun. I used to force myself to exercise by participating in a class. […]

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Break a Leg (Or At Least a Foot)

Those of you who have read my story “Competitive Yoga” in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You (story available online here, and book available from Amazon here), know that I took up yoga several years ago. You also know that I hate exercise. My experience described in “Competitive Yoga” […]

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Sticking to Goals as a Writer (and Not)

I had a boss once who always knew what percent of the year had already passed – it was roughly 2% per week, a little more than 8% each month. He would cite the percentage down to a fraction. I’ve come to adopt that attitude, as I watch time and […]

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