so, my mom was just taking a bath. she was in the bathroom for more than an hour. at one point, she asked me to come in and hand her the face wash. as i left the bathroom, it hit me: adia, you haven’t spent the last 45 minutes exercising fanatically! it’s little things for most people, but it was huge for me. ( Read more )
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Dec
04
mother daughter sanity
my mom and i are on our 18th(?) yearly mother daughter trip. seriously. we’ve been going since i was in 5th grade. we’ve been several places in the us, from monterey and carmel and pacific grove to boston to atlanta to chicago to maui to tons of other places. and while we went to a variety of places, my mindset was often one thing: ( Read more )
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Aug
09
“nbc, enough with the diet shows”
it’s my latest piece on huffington post:
i feel a little bad railing on nbc in this piece because it’s probably my favorite network out of the major stations. nonetheless, their influx of diet shows is not cool, and i finally felt i needed to publicly write about it. right now, it’s featured on the media section’s homepage.
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Mar
13
rollerbladin’
yesterday i tried out a pair of rollerblades for the first time in close to 20 years. i geared myself up – rollerblades, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads. i would’ve put on a helmet too but go figure – a woman’s xl didn’t fit my head – at all! nonetheless, i tried to skate in the backyard. my dog wasn’t sure what the heck was going on so he did what he could which was growl, hop around, and try to bite my wheels (i had to nip that in the bud very quickly).
so, what was the result of my first-in-almost-two-decades rollerblading venture:
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