Wendy's Excellent Adventure

One of the things I'm been trying to build my coaching business around is the concept of motivation - how to help people form healthy ex...

We've reached that time of year when I'm hyper-aware of being different from the rest of society. Not because I'm Jewish and I...

" Hello... [tap tap tap] ... is this thing on?" It's been a weird month or so.  For a while I felt very fragmented and un...

According to the interwebs , the traditional 6th anniversary gift is candy or iron.  Random.  Or perhaps not.  Because after 6 years, m...

I definitely subscribe to the parenting school of thought referred to by my friend Lisa as "benign neglect."  I love my children,...

Our Thanksgiving travel last week provided an unexpected - and much welcome - glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel.  Since having c...

I know that I am in the minority in that most Mondays, I am thrilled to come back to work after the weekend.  I like the structure of gettin...

The past week has been kind of a nightmare, with some points of light thrown in, in the form of my parents' visit and Zeke's birthda...

Josie threw herself out of her crib last week, so last Friday I went to IKEA and got her her birthday present from her grandparents - new bi...

Today I finish a 90-day exercise program.  It is by far my favorite of all the Beachbody programs I've ever done -- and that's sayin...

"Mama?" "Yes, Zekey?" "It's hard to be little.  I don't want to be a kid." "You don't? ...

I received an email this morning from a guy who found my fitness blog and was interested in guest-posting an article about the importance a...

**Just a little warning -- this is kind of a long one.  You might want to go pee or top off your coffee before you start reading.** Pull y...

Josie is going through a massive language explosion all of a sudden.  It's been building slowly for a while -- she's been picking up...

Some years ago -- at least 4 -- I created an account at a website that sends out birthday reminders for anyone whose birthday you want to re...

Dearest Josie, my little bean, you turned 2 years old this past Saturday.  And man, are you going through some major changes.  After transit...

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.  William Blake."       "Whaddaya mean, 'William Blake'?!?"...

After telling J this morning not to pick the kids up in my car because of the busted key, of course he completely spaced out and picked up t...

Dear Mercedes: I've been driving one of your cars for a long time.  Almost 10 years.  And I love her.  She's good to me.  She coul...

Maybe this will be me some time next week.  I just need to learn how to waterski. It's been kind of a crazy week.  My family survi...