#137 – Find Your Walking Friends
So many good reasons to walk with your friends who live nearby Many of us enjoy walking with friends for the mental and physical benefits (or could consider starting with the Dear Nina 2025 friendship challenge). However, the power of walking with friends is EXTRA inspiring in today’s episode. Leslie Hooton had to learn to […]
The Friendship of the Weekly Walking Partners
“Monday is Nan. Tuesday is Maryanne. Wednesday is Leslie. Thursday is Lisa. And Friday is Susan. It was an act of love, an act of friendship. It is what the divine looks like to me. And so we walk. I call it the friendship of the walking partners instead of the traveling pants—it is the […]
Lululemon Warehouse Sale: A Search For Reason
I Bravely Attended a Lululemon Warehouse Sale I went to the Lululemon warehouse sale for reasons I’m still not quite sure I understand. In my real life, I’m hardly a regular sale person let alone a warehouse sale person. It’s not that I don’t like to score a good deal. Of course I do. But […]
Do Barre Classes Work?
So, Do Barre Classes Work? Last spring when I wrote about my first experiences with barre, I was already a devotee. So do barre classes work?. Did 10-20 sessions transform my body? Well, not directly or immediately. But a month or so of showing up at the Pure Barre studio marked the first time in […]
Pure Barre, Lululemon, and My Search for Sculpted Arms
I Think Barre Classes Work I’m obsessed with arm muscles. Not male arms, but all the magnificently sculpted female arms and shoulders I see everywhere now that I’m paying attention. Somehow in the past decade since I cancelled my gym membership, I fell asleep at the wheel while the arm craze exploded. Ditto for the […]