Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
How healthy is your social media diet? I’ve been trying to be more intentional about what I put into my media “feed” as it’s called. About what I decide to spend my precious attention on. Since I (1) work for a news organization and (2) teach media literacy, this feels particularly important to try and…
I realized yesterday that I’ve been a “flexitarian” for more than two years. For me, that means that I eat vegetarian during the week (with the occasional fish), and only consume meat on the weekends. Honestly, It’s been super easy and enjoyable. I have a set of go-to vegetarian meals I make all the time…
After weeks of labored breathing, to go any entire day without having to use my rescue inhaler is just heavenly.
At its face, 2024 was not the best year ever. Let’s run down the awfulness: But honestly, despite all of these events – and in some ways because of them – 2024 was still a pretty great year. Let’s break it down. Problems Money Can Solve Someone said “You are fortunate if you have problems…
I’ve been thinking about how learning to skate is both a physical and a mental skill. Of course you need to be able to physically move your body in certain ways, and involves a certain amount of strength in your legs, butt and core. But perhaps the harder aspect of skating is building up the…
Today I’m celebrating six months of physical therapy! On the plus side, doing daily PT I believe has helped to mitigate knee pain and be able to walk for longer periods of time. And the exercises are not too onerous — basically they are part of my daily morning prep and evening wind down, which…
Earlier this month I went back to my physical therapist Mitchell to see if my PT exercises are making a difference with my knee pain. I’ve been doing PT since late February, which has been helping, I think? Mitchell watched me do my exercises and decided to switch them up because some of them were…
Last Saturday, I started a new physical therapy regime, making me officially old, I guess. It was prescribed by a therapist at Kaiser to manage, and hopefully reduce, the knee pain that I have been experiencing from “Jumper’s Knee” or Patellar Tendinitis. For the most part, it’s been going well. The exercises and stretches don’t…
On Friday I went to my first physical therapist session ever, at the advice of my doctor. My goal is to work on lessening knee pain I’ve been experiencing more and more over the past year. The good news is I don’t have arthritis, according to the very nice physical therapist I met with Mitchell….
I don’t tend to set “resolutions” for the New Year, which feels a bit too confining and unrealistic. Instead I do like to set “intentions” to give me direction and motivation. These are more like things I am very interested in and want to explore, but without set quantitative goals or deadlines. So not “I…