Registration Open for Weight Loss Challenges!
Well, I am thrilled to say that we've booked space for our first official Herbalife Weight Loss Challenges -- and we've registered, as of this morning, our first (very excited) participant.  We've got about 10 days before "showtime" and I must admit to a teeny case of nerves (to put it mildly!).  We're doing our flyers in the next few days, getting in supplies, studying our materials and generally getting ready to put our best selves into this.It's taken a while to build to this point.  Honestly, with the bad rap Direct Marketing has gotten over the years, we wanted to be utterly certain that these products were all that was advertised.  If one wants to be ce

Goal Weight Achieved! Have I Mentioned This?
Ho ho ho ha ha ha hee hee hee -- this is the cackling of a demented woman who had given up on achieving anything like -- oh, fitting into 7/8 of my clothes again, that sort of thing. The delighted sounds coming from a closet near you are the sounds of me slithering back into my jeans again. It has been a while. Ah, my clothes -- I missed you so!I did it! Or -- it did me! It doesn't seem fair to say I did anything, because all I did was add Herbalife Formula One Shakes to my diet. As mentioned before in this space, I was at the time too depressed to exercise, and I watched in astonishment while the pounds melted away despite myself. While it's true that I don't eat a lot,

Tying Up A Few Loose Ends
Hello out there!Well, hmm. Before I go any further, I should catch you up on what happened with our adventure -- and it really was one -- with the Burning Man tribe. I have always known that good ideas are best launched when you have enough time to put them into play -- and so it was with us.We made some -- mistakes. Only one, but it caused us some problems. My dear friend Troy posted something that looked suspiciously like an ad in his Lake Tahoe Hoopsters/Burners theme camp email list (tell you truly I have NO idea what happened, but they did not like it!) Suddenly we were "spammers" which is just NOT what you want to have a reputation for at a place like Bu

Thoughts About Letting Go, Weight Included!
September 19, 2009Just came home from seeing one of my two beautiful daughters off on a great journey. She is on an airplane heading for London for a year of extremely intense training as a classical Shakespearean actor at Drama Centre, in a highly regarded Master's program. She is well-prepared for this moment; I wouldn't deprive her of it for the world. My other beauty is a free-lance journalist living with her love in Paris -- working on her third (fourth if you count Hindi) language. They are amazing creatures, and I am so proud of them. Part of me I will confess wishes I had my precious girls back with me in their younger days when nothing was more importa