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Lessons On Vacation – Incredible, Imperfect & Informational
Vacations are awesome. Time with friends is totally awesome too. Both at the same time? Total radness. From last Friday through Monday I went on vacation with a group of friends, which was a blast....
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Fit-tastic Update: The Opportunity Of Being The Worst
As you may already know, my son and I are taking a tap dancing class together. My son is pretty good at it, but I’m not. I cannot believe how hard tap dancing is! I expected to struggle a little. I’m a...
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Fit-tastic Update: Raw
The Raw Deal I seem to have hit a new point in my weight loss, health and healing journey. It’s a raw period. It’s as if I have a lifetime of stored emotions that are only now coming out. A lifetime of...
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Fit-tastic Update: Demoting My Inner Tough Guy
I’ve always prided myself on being tough. When I was in childbirth, the nurses kept asking me where I was on my “pain scale.” I kept saying things like, “That’s a 5 or a 4. Not sure, but not that bad.”...
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Pad Thai – Gluten Free!!
OK, so I’ve decided that I’m going to start mixing it up a bit. As you know I’ve been posting my Fit-tastic posts for some time now and frankly, I’m feeling like I’m ready to start talking about some...
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Fit-tastic Update: Speaking My First Language
{Photo credit: Bettie Newell} Every time I play my ukulele I think about how much I just love it. How it makes so much more sense to me than almost anything ever has. For years, I spent my time with a...
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Fit-tastic Update – On The Verge Of Vertigo
You know those movies that start at the end and work backwards to reveal a story? This is how I feel about the healing process of living with Celiac disease. The healthier I get, the more I see how...
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Father’s Day Retrospective – Absentees and Great Dads
The quote above in the photo pretty much sums up what I thought of fathers, but that was before I knew my husband. Let me start at the beginning . . . Growing up in a single parent family without a...
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Fit-tastic Update: Digest This
The more I read about food and health, the more I’ve become obsessed with digestion. We all know that digestion is critical to overall functioning, but despite its importance to our health, most of us...
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A Red Plaid Skirt, Naked Ladies & Clothing Donation
This post is totally different from the posts I normally write, but it’s something that matters to me, so here I go. I remember getting a voucher for free clothing at a local thrift shop when I was a...
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It’s Time To Cut The Crap – Creamer, Thickeners & Weird Ingredients
For the longest time I was super excited about coconut milk, the variety that comes in a box similar to rice milk and soy milk . You know, the stuff in the tall rectangular box? That is, until one day...
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Many Mini Stories Of World Domination
I was minding my business, just settling into my seat for the start of the first day of speakers at World Domination Summit. The couple in front of me, a man and woman, were getting settled as well....
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WDS – A Recap & How It Affected Me
World Domination Summit 2013 blew my mind, again. It always does. This is my third year of being involved with helping make it happen. This year I had the smallest role I’ve ever had at the event: lead...
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Fit-tastic Update: Back To Reality & My Disease
I though it would be interesting to contrast this post that I wrote a week ago about a Celiac episode I had, against the health that I feel this week. Just over a week after feeling so bad, now I’m...
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Fit-tastic Update: Diet, Health & Blood Tests
I recently went to the doctor to have blood tests done. Not for any other reason than that because of my Celiac disease, I need to be monitored regularly to make sure I’m staying healthy. Guess what?...
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My Grandmother’s Hands & Mine
My grandmother wasn’t a fussy woman. She was the type to wear comfortable shoes, little to no makeup, maybe lipstick, and she made funny faces constantly, whether she knew it or not. She was such a...
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Inadvertant Lessons I Learned From My Grandmother
Grandma & Grandpa with their dog Daiquiri My grandmother was one of those people who seemingly had it all. She was funny, a great conversationalist, an avid letter writer, she donated money to...
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My Journey Back To Health: Gut Feelings
Most of us are born pretty healthy. Usually it’s not until we’re in our 40s that we start to realize, “This health business doesn’t come fo’ free.” As we get older we pay for our health on the front...
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Thoughts on RVing
My family and I recently went on a week long vacation to the Redwoods in a rented RV. We rented a 31′ Forester from RV Northwest. It was so much fun and I want to tell you about it. My 6’3″ husband...
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Summer Memories – Great Vacations & Wonderful People
It’s been a summer like no other, filled with laughter, dance parties, making music and generally playing again like I did when I was a kid. This summer I took more vacations than I’ve ever had the...
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