I got to work out with the lovely Coach Alex Janss’ class last night at CrossFit Central RunTex. She is a great coach and has an easy rapport with her clients, so it was a blast to drop in. The workout, however, featured the elusive handstand pushups. I’ve chronicled my HSPU journey extensively–from slamming my…
Category: thoughts
Learning
I’ve never believed in regrets. Nor mistakes. I also love this and this sticky note from Things We Forget.
37 Things I Am Thankful For …
My list hasn’t changed too much since last year … I mean, it’s now EndlessBeauty.com instead of another project that allows me to create and share awesome stuff with the world, but I still love and cherish my family, puppy (going on 4 years old!), Vermonster, friends, sports teams, CrossFit … here’s what’s new that…
Aspen: First SNOW of Winter 2010
I woke up this morning to this: … and thought, Wow! First snow of the season! But then … I thought, Wow! That’s a lot of snow! BUT THEN … And we’re STILL going, people. And then we took the puppy out for a run on the rugby field over…
Yoga and More Nature’s Garage Gem
Still at the yoga, still loving it. Check out my silly video from EndlessBeauty.com’s My Chemical Breakup Challenge … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/yAEV5Jyu5jY] Today in yoga I had a different instructor, which is always cool. We played around a lot with forearm balances and crow, which anyone who saw me try and fail to do handstand pushups at…
Aspen: Off-Season in Aspen
This is Nali visiting one of her fave people at a hotel in town. This may also be the first time she’s ever stood up on her back legs to greet a person not in my immediate family. We were just out strolling the town last night and stopped in to chat with said person…
Well hello there
So. I haven’t written in 8 days. In those 8 days, I have barely managed to workout. Or do my burpees. For work and fun, I read somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 blogs a day–via skimming on my RSS feeds. You know my life has gotten overwhelming when I haven’t read my RSS feeds…
JOIN My Chemical Breakup
It all started when I read this book: No More Dirty Looks. I ended up creating EndlessBeauty.com’s My Chemical Breakup Challenge. For the month of October, join me and give up toxins in your beauty products! Leave comments on the blog, tweet with the hashtag #mychemicalbreakup, or post videos of your debacles trying at-home hair…
Body Image and Beauty Within
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEu_PhqFnFw&feature=player_embedded] We talk a lot around the CrossFit gyms about changing the definition of beauty. “Strong Not Skinny” or “Strong is the New Skinny” are mantras and t-shirt slogans in this culture. But sometimes even that more positive spin on the ideal body is missing the point: there isn’t an ideal body. Beauty isn’t one…
Masculine v Feminine
My totally badass new-to-me Land Rover Discovery II Kalahari Edition. The guy who sold it to me warned me about 7,000 times (k, probably just 15) that it was a “masculine” car. It’s very “manly,” he said in a concerned tone, thinking of the attention his son got in it and probably also the sic…