As I’ve written before, Shelby usually starts yoga class asking how you want to feel. Often, I think “calm” or “peace” or “wrung out” or “strong” but recently, a new one popped up: free to feel. When we adopted Bob, one of my favorite ways the terrible handlers described him is “he has big feelings.”…
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40 Under 40
Arbitrary or no, there are things about forty that just make a person want to achieve by this birthday. In my case, it’s not always specific goals, more like a notion of “when I’ve grown up”—and FORTY is undeniably grown, right—I will have done these things. And, maybe I will have. I am getting married…
Again
Out of nowhere, I tore my plantar fascia playing football–pushing off the line of scrimmage–last Wednesday. I felt a pop in the arch of my foot, and knew something was torn but didn’t even know you COULD tear a plantar fascia, particularly not one that gave you no warning and previously did not have pain.…
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39 Things to Continue Before 39
39 things I want to continue doing before my 39th birthday (NOT in order): loving skiing happy relationship supporting others enjoying max time outside so many friends neph neighbros saying no time with dad time with mama rest lifting the body I like moving through space neat house volleyball hot cowboy pool climbing dinner parties…
Obituary | Feel Grateful Friday 072922
Nali’s memorial tonight was more than I ever expected. My family and friends are amazing. It was low key and fun and celebratory and perfect. My friends that couldn’t be here sent the perfect accoutrement: a shirt with her peeping out the pocket, an L-paw-print-N-necklace … I felt so loved. Working through writing an obituary:…
Trauma Recovery Report
TRR! That’s what it felt like when my achilles ripped. But TRR is also a new series on this blog documenting my recovery moving forward, not in the banal I-had-surgery-a-week-later way, but in the emotional, psychological, physical way all of us deal with trauma. I wrote a whole boring intro, but let’s focus on the…