At least in my Bikram class. More and more, I’m fully compliant and after a decade at the Laughing Lotus, where the unofficial motto was “move like yourself,” I’ve simply acquiesced to doing everything the way the Birkam folks want me to do them. I like extending out in Janu but the...

Today I got my first pedicure with polish. I’ve had dozens of pedicures in my adult life, really starting as part of being a yoga teacher.  People look at your feet and well, it’s just sorta a necessity. Yet until today I’ve completely resisted getting any polish. But today after jump rop...

I’ve been obsessing all day about whether or not to get a buzz cut. I love my new haircut in some ways, but feel it should be shorter on the top … or maybe shorter everywhere.  And I can’t tell it it just seemed unfortunate because of our amateur video and the wind or whether I should go ...

Right before bed last night I got a text from Val asking if I could babysit Jonah this afternoon, and since I pretty much could and it’s super-fun, I did –– but it did mean re-arranging all of my plans (many of them merely mental). For one thing, rather than my usual 4:30 Bikram, I had to go at 9 am ...

At least I think that’s what the owner Bev of the Bikram studio said today (I can’t be sure because of the heat exhaustion, you know). Today was insanely productive, largely because I really simplified things I made a list of the five most powerful things I could do, and then –– after 14 minute...

Today I took my jump rope practice to a whole new level:  no longer 1 minute on and 1 minute off, I began doing 2 minutes on and 1 off.  (I still jumped for a total of 12 minutes, but split up differently it was somehow even more intense and more playful.) I experienced this greater freedom and e...

Some don’t like the expression “cheat day” –– from Body for Life –- but I decided it was really necessary after 8 days in a row of Bikram and jump roping and seeking cash injections (I also like that phrase’s junkie implications.) So today, other than a beach walk with Susan, and a ...

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...