Life after disability: can it be a new kind of wholeness?

October 7, 2025
We’re not always prepared for the ways life shifts. One day, we move through the world as we always have—walking with ease, using our hands without thinking, seeing clearly. And then something happens. An accident, a diagnosis, a progression of aging. Suddenly, the body becomes unfamiliar...

Boxing Haiku

March 1, 2009
My quads are screamingBoxing sprints, lunges are hardThe wages of...

Rainy days & Sundays

March 1, 2009
It's an overcast and drizzly day in Tampa and we're dug in for the duration. It's a day for Netflix, reading the papers, flipping through books and doing the New York...

A Big Day

February 27, 2009
As I anticipated the end of 2008, I knew the new year would involve the start of Life 2.0, but I hadn't anticipated everything that it would entail. And how important...

Report from the Ring

February 27, 2009
Ok, so we weren't really in the ring. Not the actual ring with ropes, just the on-the-floor training ring. The one with bags.Before boxing class, the girl at the front...

Boxing for Girly-Girls

February 26, 2009
This is my idea of what boxing for girls is like. We'd wear sexy silk boxing robes and pink gloves. Makeup and hair in place. My trainer thinks I should start boxing at...

"Botox Party this Weekend"

February 26, 2009
On the road this morning, I saw a sign: Botox Party this Weekend."Hmm. Botox PARTY??? No.A gathering during which someone would take a long needle and inject a...

Not a bad thing

February 26, 2009

Atlantis

February 26, 2009
Such a pretty old...

There’s no success like failure..

February 26, 2009

Food, glorious food!

February 25, 2009
Don't ask me why, I'm not even hungry. But I've been scanning some fabulous recipe entries posted by foodie bloggers in and around Italia.What a luxury to have the time...

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