Remembering Kevin Weston
It was 2003 and I’d moved back to the Bay after being laid off from a giant dot.com and deciding I just couldn’t work in that system anymore. Instead, I was a bicoastal tech consultant, explaining...
View ArticleGetting into Tabata
About a month ago, I tried a workout called Tabata that totally kicked my ass. It was intense and challenging and I loved it–but the sessions at the YMCA were at 6 am. I get up early, but that was too...
View ArticleExercise! Discovering what I like…and doing it.
I started working out regularly back in February 2014. It’s been exactly 6 months since I started and I want to update on where I am with it right now. When I started I was 35-50 lbs overweight, and...
View Article2014 review and 2015 resolutions for Susan
2014 turned out to be a beautiful raging comet of a dreams come true, new dreams come to life, and some pretty damn good realities. So many positive things happened, it seems like a miracle, really....
View ArticleFitness and health goals for 2015–the starter pack
At the gym this morning, I saw that I’ve taken off 8 inches on my hips since February 2014. Since January 2014, I’ve also reduced my body fat by 9%, and lost at least one pants size. But the reality is...
View ArticleI think that I need a fitness community–goals for the next 6 months
I’ve been working out for over a year, and the results have been great– I’ve lost 8 inches off my hips, 7 inches off my waist, added muscle, toning, endurance. I sleep better, have fewer health...
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The wonderful spirit of the Tech Inclusion 15 conference: some takeaways
Last week’s first Tech Inclusion Conference, put on by Wayne Sutton and Melinda Epler with the support of Galvanize and lots of sponsors and funders, was one of those events that people will look back...
View Article2016: The health and fitness version
When it comes to fitness and health, I have to live with the fact I am much more in the slow and steady time-frame than the make big changes happen quickly camp. In 18 months of effort, I’ve probably...
View ArticleMy first 100 days
Since the news that Donald Trump has been elected the 54th President of the United States, I’ve been moving between anger, denial and resistance. It seems hard to believe that 54% of the women in the...
View ArticleRemembering Steve Buttry, RIP
I’d been waiting for this for a week or more, ever since I saw Steve had stopped posting on social media and was in hospice care after a long and hard-fought illness. Steve was a colleague, more than...
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