I hate my garden. If it were a pair of jeans I’d ask, “Does this garden make me look fat?” The problem with my garden, and my life, and my business, and my apartment and my social life is they all make me *feel fat* right now. TIP for men: when women *feel fat* they don’t mean physically fat, they mean they don’t feel attractive or desirable or happy. Has nothing to do with actually LOOKING fat, it’s a state of mind. I feel conflicted and unsettled.
Actually I …

My tomatoes are doing well. They’ve gone from blooms to marble sized, to ping pong ball and larger - growing enough every day I can see the difference. I make a point to monitor and record their growth and it’s been fun to see the changes day-by-day. They’re not the only thing growing around here. When I put my workout clothes on this morning and smoothed out a wrinkle in the fabric on my thigh I felt muscles. I hadn’t noticed that my own body is changing as much as …

My morning routine includes at least an hour at the gym, sweating off the pounds and pumping iron. I follow that with a long, hot shower and then enjoy the cool walk back to my office where I spend 20 minutes photographing my garden and then another 20 or so walking my dog.
One of the things I love about the garden is that I have to look carefully to find all the new treasures it has each day - new blooms, fruit forming, creatures living, dying and moving among …

As a type A personality who worked two and three part-time jobs while attending college I pursued the American myth that the “harder you work,” the better a person you are.
As I read on another blog today, “The descriptor ‘hard worker’ is so culturally potent that it is often used as a defense of a person’s character.” It’s true! Along with “good provider, good family man etc.” people being sentenced for a crime are often able to mitigate a stiff prison sentence with the proof that they have always been, …

I started making sure my sink was clean - free and clear of dishes and whatever (the t-shirt I was hand washing, the vegetable skins and tops of strawberries I carved up for my afternoon smoothie, about 6 weeks ago. It was a suggestion of a friend of mine, Lorraine Esposito. Lorraine is a life coach and an amazing mother with insights into boundaries and persistence that amaze me every time we talk.
I had just started toying with the idea of hiring a personal fitness trainer, getting serious about …