Morning,
As you know if you’ve been reading my blog, I’m currently challenging myself with P90x, an extreme home-fitness routine. It’s great! It’s exciting! And it cajoles your muscles to failure, which is why taking care of yourself afterwards is of such high priority.
After every workout I do, I now will take […]

Morning!
Well, at 4am, I got up to try the second day of P90x, Plyometrics. For me, was that ever an eyeopener!
Couple of things you should know about. One, I’ve never done any physical activity that requires an intense amount of jumping. And two, there are some things my legs simply aren’t […]

Morning,
Well, it’s almost 1am and I cannot sleep. There is a slight (oh so slight!) possibility that I might have overdone my physical therapy a weeeeee bit (about as “weeeee” as a redwood tree) early today.
Today, all I did (really!) was unassisted chinups thru the day (I can do 3 at a shot, […]

Morning!
Yes, I have proven it to myself - I am capable of returning to karate and actually NOT doing any of it but simply sitting it out, observing my kids, and enjoying it greatly. My gosh, I didn’t realize quite how much I have missed participating in it these past 8 days!
I watched […]

Now, as anyone who knows me will testify, I adore Star Wars - I find the whole series to be a marvelous melding of self-knowledge, inner strength and the ultimate fight between good and evil. I even built a sales site for Star Wars long long ago, and came up with a rather […]

I’ve been learning so much about myself during this past week of recovery that my head is spinning. Some of the knowledge includes:

No matter what got thrown at me, I could handle it
I’m in better health now than I was in my 20s - my standing heartrate is 65 or so
My recovery rate […]

Morning!
Well, yesterday saw me graduate to using a cane for my hobbling about. I’m pleased to say it appears that I’m healing relatively well, but of course, I’m making darned sure I don’t push it!!
Yesterday was spent being actually quiet (ha ha! Yes! It did happen! I was quiet!) and […]

Morning,
Yesterday I had my last class in women’s self-defense, and let me tell you, it was utterly eye-opening to the extreme.
I’d like to urge everyone reading (men and women alike!) to take a self-defense class (mine was given by our local police); the common-sense taught on how NOT to become a victim in the […]

You know, I really adore my martial arts and self defense classes - the information and knowledge I’m learning there is just plain gold.
I had a very interesting discussion with a sensei yesterday about fighting and how not to panic when the stress levels are high. When you’re in the heat of the […]

Here’s a funny parenting thing.
I had to awaken my daughter early this morning. After she left her room, she hid right by my room with the nefarious plan of jumping out and scaring me.
Well! I walked out, didn’t see her, did see something move towards my face, and executed a perfect(I mean […]