The Final Third: Guest Post with April Henry

So one of the things I would like to do in my final third is learn a martial art. I really don’t know much about them except it looks like a really cool, tough way to keep in shape. It also addresses the things that all of us in our final third should all be...

The Final Third: Part 7

This final third blog series is basically me outlining what the last years of my life is going to look like. It has helped me clarify my own personal goals and serves as a reminder of why I’m doing what I’m doing. So while it may look like I’m...

The Final Third: Part 6

I’ve always been a rock and roll kind of girl. When I was about five, my babysitter introduced me to Sugar, Sugar by the Archies. Then I heard my very cool big brother and his friends listening to In A Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly. I was hooked. After my brother...

The Final Third: Part 5

My grandmother was an amazing woman. I think she was 50 the first time she went to Europe and I think she went four times before she passed. She told me once that she thought she was meant to live in England, that she actually got homesick for London and the...

The Final Third: Part 4

I want to climb a volcano. There, I said it. I know it sounds totally crazy, especially for an overweight fifty-year-old, but I don’t think it is and here’s why…As many of you know, I have been fitness crazy since my last bout with cancer. I spent a year learning to...