A story for the world to hear. The Story of Umed is a short animated film based on the story written by the award-winning, deaf, Indian author Anantha Lekshmi. …

Welcome to the Modern World — Carver Commodore is one of my faves and so when I heard they were coming to play in my town I was stoked (grab tickets here to see then at the Raccoon Motel in beautiful downtown Davenport, IA November 11th). Even more exciting? I had worked with them previously on a few things…

I’m turning forty in a few days and I don’t know if I should be excited or depressed. I look around at all my friends and think, where did I go wrong? I’m not at all where I thought I’d be at forty years old as a child. I thought…

The two faces of me. Me at my heaviest and me at my thinnest and “normal” weight. I have to take medication for mental health that causes me to gain significant amounts of weight and when I go off the medication I drop all of the weight… except a lot…

…and dance ‘till you feel better. — I had to channel James Brown tonight. I came home from work only to skip yet another workout to mope around feeling sorry for myself and honestly, what good is that doing for me??? Why am I so defeated? Well, it all starts HERE. However, we all have our own things. It’s what we do with them…

She’d only been working three weeks or so when he started coming in. At first it was every couple of days or so… then every other day. …then every day. She worked at an old antique store that also sold records and assorted oddities. The shelves lined with artifacts from…

Here we go again I guess… — That’s me after losing 170 pounds several years ago after gaining a bunch of weight from medication. It was hard work. Like, REALLY hard. It took me five years of busting my ass in the gym and completely changing my relationship with food. Look at this difference!

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She sat down quickly on the nearest bench, her heart racing. She felt light-headed, but in an accomplished way that told her everything she already knew. Yes! A 5K PR! Tiffany had been battling her weight since college and since starting a couch to 5K program just over six months…