Tenshi Mama

I found this on the Chicago Manual of Style website, and felt compelled to share it with my readers (both of you).

Q. In a software application that catalogues musical albums in a sidebar column for playback selection the main developer insists on using italics for the album titles. I advised to drop the italics mainly […]

Today was fun again. I’m back!
I think not exhausting myself yesterday helped make today’s class go well. Maybe I have a new way of understanding “don’t overexert yourself.”

I’ve been noticing lately that training has been losing it’s spark for me. I haven’t been happy at the end of class. Instead, I’ve been relieved it’s over.
But today, I was fifteen minutes late, and that meant I missed most of the warm-up calisthenics. I hadn’t known it would make such a difference, but I […]

I’m famous.
I have a “lens” on squidoo.com called CFS or Fibromyalgia and Exercise? You have got to be kidding! and today I woke up to find it had some actual traffic. Some sleuthing told me that Seth Godin, the brain behind Squidoo, had mentioned it in his blog. And someone else mentioned Seth’s blog […]

It’s still fat, definitely. And it’s sore sometimes. But I have visible arm muscles! Visible leg muscles! And I can do amazing things: I can survive a karate class, walk through the grocery store, and I can pick up my beautiful baby. Oh, that is so, so wonderful.

Karate was quite hard today. I’d say “the hardest class ever” but I’ve used that too much already!
The warm-up exhausted me, really. Twenty minutes of jogging, pushups, situps, etc., plus drills on kicks from the floor. I had to take a break in the middle, and even after the break, I had to slow down […]

I pass this sign every day, and it always makes me smile. And I finally remembered to take my camera with me!
This is Eugene, Oregon, where the cops doing a “drug raid” (on a residential neighborhood where people were growing weed) felt they needed armored vehicles and grenades. It’s funny; we’re not a violent people. […]