Maybe you don’t know this…

Sometimes I wish I could wear a button.

Or something similar.

Like this name tag.

<———

It would open up the door to the conversation that I seem to be having more and more often these days. “Hi Tara. Can you explain to me what […]

Saying and Doing….

Blog ideas usually come to me when I’m least expecting it..

Except I’m pretty much always thinking about what to write for the next “MIND EXPLODING” episode of A Life Changing Journey.

Usually it goes something like this: blah blah blah (hear or see something), whoa that would make […]

Making the body…fitting the mind.

I rarely talk about gender here.

And by rarely I mean almost never.

Funny though because I think about it almost more than anything.

I think about it more than weight loss.

Maintenance.

Working out.

I think about from the moment […]

You are what you love….

Esty artist: rachelledyer

We’ve all heard the saying “You are what you eat”.

When I weighed close to 300 pounds, I was defined by what I ate.

I was defined by how much I ate.

I was defined by when I ate.

It wasn’t […]

New Year’s resolwhattheeffamIdoing?

etsy design by emilymcdowelldraws

You get up.

You make the choice.

This is it.

This is gonna be the year you’ll (insert just about any damn thing you can think of here) and you’re gonna hit it hard. Harder than you’ve ever done before. Holy crap, […]

2014 and my wish for you…

Before beginning this post I took a slow deep breath.

The first deep breath of 2014.

Many people out there in the blogging world will be sitting down and looking back over the year. Talking about the good (with hopefully little focus on the bad and the outright ugly). […]

Clean up on aisle 5…

Sometimes when I’m plugging away on my laptop I’m reminded to clean up some free space.

I don’t really have a lot on my computer.

I use it mainly to throw down some words on this little place of safety.

It doesn’t take long for the whole disc cleanup […]

(Talk Talk Talk, Explain Explain Explain)

I’ve been having a hard time communicating.

Not just with the people around me but also with myself.

Over the last 3+ years blogging was the way I mainly communicated my thoughts and feelings to the world around me. It was (is) also the way I communicate with myself. […]

Dear Ted…

I don’t know why I’ve named you Ted but I had to name you.

We’ve never met. Or at least I don’t think we’ve ever met. You’re an older guy and I see a lot of older gentlemen where I work. Asking me if the ice cream machine is working or […]

My Perfect World…

TLNart

In my perfect world I would have woken up this morning and called my mother. I would have made the perfect cup of coffee made and I’d sit at my perfect little kitchen table looking out my window onto the perfect view of some fairy tale mountain range. I’d say good […]