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One Hell of a Week
The weekend of March 1-3, we were in Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con. We have cat sitters for our beloved male black cat, Titian (tee-shen), who is diabetic. Saturday, we got an email from one of the sitters telling us Titian was a bit off. He’s been known to display bouts of off behavior and experience some…
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Around The World
Several years ago, I got a National Geographic Expedition catalog in the mail. Up until then, I didn’t even know the world-renowned company did travel excursions. At the back of the catalog was a trip called Around the World by Private Jet. A 24-day trip that visited places like Machu Picchu and Petra, Jordan (a…
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31-Day Cold Plunge Challenge, Part II
Five minutes is a very short amount of time, even if you are spending it neck-deep in cold water. Cold plunging forces you to be in the present moment. It’s one of the things I love best about it.During each plunge, I use the time to focus on personal growth. I reiterate my various intentions,…
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31-Day Cold Plunge Challenge
In the latter part of last year, I ordered a cold plunge tank from Renu Therapy out of California. After it arrived, my husband and I (along with a few friends) moved the 300-pound tank to its permanent location in our back courtyard. The following day, I took my first plunge in the tank. Before that, I…
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Why I Cold Plunge
I am compelled to clear up a misconception. In the few days since receiving my Renu Therapy Cold Stoic 2.0 cold plunge tank, I have received multiple comments from various people insinuating that I prefer the cold. Suggesting that it’s easy for me. Assuming that I’m different because I like the cold while others prefer…
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Cold Plunge Journey 2
Listening to The Huberman Lab podcast on deliberate cold exposure, I learned something quite surprising. The best place to put something cool or cold on the body to bring your temperature down if you are overheated (risk of hyperthermia) is NOT the back of the neck or chest. Why? Because of the medial preoptic…
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Cold Plunge Journey
This is the first of several posts I’m going to make on cold plunging or deliberate cold exposure. I began my cold plunge journey back in February of this year (2023). I regrettably decided to start in the Winter, enduring the Puget Sound’s coldest water temperatures in the 30s and 40s° F. I would spend…
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Queen Hatshepsut
Image – Sphinx of Hatshepsut Original Location: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY I fell in love with Hatshepsut (hat-chep-soot) while reading the book The Woman Who Would Be King by UCLA Professor and Egyptologist Kara Cooney. Ms. Cooney paints an amazing portrait of life in…
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My Menopause Manifesto
I am in the beginning chapters of my Menopause Coaching Specialist certification program. To put menopause into perspective, between perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, half the population (IE, anyone with active ovaries) will spend half their life in a menopausal state. It has been both validating, as well as eye-opening to read about the various…
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Advanced Planning
I’d be completely lying if I said I didn’t start to mentally pack my suitcase within 2 minutes of getting off the phone with National Geographic after booking our trip to Egypt (for October). In the following weeks, it’s all I could talk about to the point of my husband rolling his eyes even before…