By Nici Holt Cline
Today I have been on this planet for 32 years. More than a new year, my birth day pushes me to look at the last year’s accomplishments and struggles, to set resolutions. This last year has been the biggest, fullest, hardest and most satisfying year of my life.
I didn’t know it but I was actually pregnant on my birthday last year. My due date was bumped up an entire month when I was 20 weeks, er, 24 weeks along. It threw us a bit to get pregnant so quickly, as in it only takes once.
Watching my belly grow so fast, an inescapable reminder of imminent big change, pushed our family to make some major decisions. We decided I’d leave my job of seven years. We decided Andy would have $10,000 in mouth surgeries in an effort to finally fix the damage from an eighth grade bike wreck. I dug a bit deeper into writing and making. Andy is in his final year of his four-year electrical apprentice program, working full-time, studying, taking tests. I threw my entirety into my work at the museum, giving it my best self, wanting to leave a legacy I could be proud of.
Andy had his first major solo art exhibit. I grew a human.
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The Cabbage Soup Diet, the 500 Calorie Diet, the Grapefruit and Spinach Diet… The list goes on and on when it comes to extremely restricted eating plans. And after all that yo-yo dieting year after year, you would think your metabolism gets run down really quick. A new study in Canada compared resting metabolisms of women who yo-yo dieted for an average of 18 years and found no difference in 92 % of the subjects. Although these over-the-top nutrition plans can momentarily slow down your metabolism and frustrate you, there is no permanent effect on your metabolism. The take home tip is to avoid the confusion, frustration and torture and eat a well-rounded diet with exercise and make the most of your metabolism.
Source: redookmag.com
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By Jennifer Savage
My three-year-old daughter Eliza loves Spiderman. She tells me so all the time.
“Mama,” she’ll say in her serious voice. “I really, really like Spiderman.”
“I know you do, baby,” I tell her. “I know you do.”
I’m not entirely sure where the obsession started except that a friend’s son, Johnny, might have lit the spark. He’s since handed down t-shirts, coats, pajamas and muscle shirts all with Spiderman splashed across the front or back or both. Eliza was so enamored with Johnny’s light up shoes that she would wear them around whenever we were at his house. So the next time she needed shoes we found ourselves in Target.
“I don’t like these,” she said of every pair I tried to get her to try on. As I was reshelving shoes of every kind she slipped around to the next aisle.
“Mama, Mama!” I heard her squeal. “I want these!” She had found the same pair of light up shoes.
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Lineage Dance of Los Angeles invites you to come along on an exciting ride – exploring the mysteries of the Brain through dance. The professional dance company has teamed up with actors, artists and musicians to present an evening that will enlighten, inspire and entertain. Test your “lobe knowledge”, figure out if you are really right brained or left brained and more!
The signature style of Lineage Dance, a powerful athleticism blended with a lyrical grace, forms the architecture of a dance work that asks questions, reveals answers, and tells stories.
Join us at the Missoula International School on Thursday, February 4 at 6:00 pm or Friday, February 5 at 8:00 pm at the Downtown Dance Collective. All proceeds will benefit Zane Goicovich, a three-year-old boy with a heavy load. Zane has epilepsy, sensory processing disorder, autism and brain damage. Because Zane is resistant to epilepsy drugs, we are trying to raise money for Zane and his parents to travel to Denver several times to get evaluated for, and possibly have, brain surgery. If Zane is a good candidate, and if the surgery is successful, it would CURE his epilepsy!
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