The not-unexpected confession

August 26, 2010

I haven’t been as consistent with my run/walks in the past two weeks, but I’m not beating myself up over it because as my crazy colleague keeps reminding me, and I truly believe it, this season of laziness will pass. I haven’t fallen off the wagon, I’m resting. I’m not angry with myself or judging [...]

Reading about diabetes

August 16, 2010

The library has always been a very important part of my family’s life, and ever since the various libraries in the city a) made it possible to get books from one library transferred to your library of choice and b) allowed you to put books that the library has on order on hold, before it [...]

On a weepy start to the day

June 5, 2010

I shed some tears two mornings ago, at work no less, and I was blessed enough to have my colleague (the one who I affectionately see as a drill sergeant) there to help me through it. (Incidentally, I’m quite lucky that I know several colleagues who would have been there for me.) Why was I [...]

An update and further introspection on this matter of losing the weight

March 31, 2010

Several weeks ago, I decided that I was going to join Team Diabetes again and do the 5k run/walk that is coming up at the end of May. If I had signed up when I was planning to, I could have given the online training programs designed to get you from loafing on a couch [...]