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For the past few months I’ve been making small changes to our diet. I’ve started using brown rice pasta in place of the enriched white flour products, brown rice in place of white rice and whole wheat items instead of the “better” tasting alternative. So far the changes have been easily incorporated into our daily [...]

Last year, I completed the Sudbury Sprint, which was my first triathlon. This past Sunday, the Sudbury Sprint became the first triathlon that I have repeated. I thought it would be fun to do it again this year and try and beat last year’s time. I did beat my old time despite [...]

My second season of triathlons is about to start! This year I am a mentor for the Danskin triathlon in MA. I have been assigned 12 mentees. So far, most of the questions that they have asked have related to trying to fit in all the training while being a parent.
I completely [...]

It’s finally over. Winter. It was, as it always is, so very long and so very dark. February rolled in and then stayed for months and months and then slowly March passed and April began and there we were- finally outside. Outside, desperately searching for the season’s very first sprout. [...]

The following is not a new video, but it is valuable.  Even if you’ve seen it before,  today might be the right day to share it with your daughter/sister/cousin/mother/niece/friend.  And their brothers, fathers and friends, too.

And if you’d like to hear more about developing healthy self-esteem, try this article from NYU’s Child Study Center.
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I am about to begin my second season of triathlons. I’ve been seriously training for them for the last couple of months, but even in my off time I am proud to say that I was still going into the gym. The other part of the training not surprisingly is watching what I [...]

With the coming of Spring (not that you’d know it from the snow we had today!), I have decided to finally do a full court press of counting calories and exercise to get rid of those last 15 pounds of baby weight from my second pregnancy. I do this for my own future health [...]

This week reminded me how much work is involved in being a parent. This was the first week of soccer which forced us to switch my older son’s (OS) Tae Kwon Doe to Mondays to avoid conflict with soccer practice. The new Tae Kwon Doe is much earlier than the old one, which [...]

Holy CRAP on a cracker do I hate February. The weather changes on a whim, first we’re in the deep freeze, then sweating under layers of wool in the warm spring sun. It’s snowing, its raining and melting then freezing and snowing again. And all the while, virus are incubating in the warming environment, spreading [...]

Normally I spend my 40 weekly work hours at the office, but I do have an agreement on hand with my employer and a laptop computer that allow me to telecommute on an as needed basis. Turns out that today was one of those “as needed” days.
Our son had a high fever most of [...]