No Self-Promotion –– Just Jump Rope, Bikram, and Belle –– A Saturday (Off)!

One of those against all odds things happened today in Words With Friends: In the last round, I got J, Q, and Z –– each worth ten points (because they are so challenging to place) –– and practically nowhere to place them since the board was filled.  Even lame places, like non-T...

Today I reached a new jump rope peak (12 sessions of 1 minute jumping and 1 minute recovery after each) and it was my fifth Bikram class in a row. [By the way, the world jump roping record is 27 hours –– which is clearly quite insane.] The plot has thickened at Bikram in that I now know my enemy’s na...

Well, I’m actually not including any of them here –– I’m not that much of a masochist –– but I received them from Cody tonight and they are AWESOME.  [If you haven’t been reading faithfully, I did a photoshoot last week at my heaviest weight before beginning m...

Jonah’s lemonade stand today was a triumph –– a $40 profit –– assisted by his charm, of course, but really he did have an astonishingly great location on the Greenwich Steps.  Parades of tourists passing by, ready and willing to purchase a cookie and a beverage (and most ...

Apparently, the line “Here’s looking at you, Kid,” is not in the screenplay of Casablanca, but is something Bogart said to Bergman often while trying to teach her poker between takes. One of the most radical things about Bikram is that you are more or less forced to look at yourself in th...

Today at Bikram, I experienced a mind-blowing interaction. Fifteen minutes into class the (you supply your own adjectives) “lady” in front of me turned and said, “When you breath I can feel the warm air on me;  try breathing through your nose.” Now, I was breathing through my nose (...

Remember that moment in NOTTING HILL where Julia Roberts says: “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Oh, how movie star Julia Roberts yearns for simplicity in such a heart-breaking way. I feel similarly every time I try to take a yoga class: “I’...