Category: My Life

Running While Standing Still

by Neely | Aug 7, 2018 | Body Care, My Life, Transformation | 0 |

When you’re sick, or injured, you have to give yourself, and your body the permission and space to heal and heal completely. That can be hard.

Goodbye Hive Seven

by Neely | Jul 17, 2018 | My Life | 0 |

This is the story of Hive Seven. It was a lovely beehive. The queen was amazing and her daughters were very smart. And then…

Attack of the Life Challenges

by Neely | Jul 9, 2018 | My Life, Transformation | 0 |

When life gives you lemons they say make lemonade. Well, life has been throwing, what feels like, a whole truckload of lemons at me. Or one of those automatic tennis ball launchers is set on high and is lobbing lemons at me.

I still have more to go, but I won my weight loss bet!

by Neely | Jul 3, 2018 | My Life, Transformation | 0 |

I am finished with week three of my cleanse-detox-metabolic reset, Jillian’s Dietbet, and ending month four since I began my journey to my ideal self. It’s been a heck of a ride so far.

Neely Goes Into the Bee Hive!

by Neely | Jun 13, 2018 | Adventure, My Life | 0 |

I’m is also a beekeeper with terrible luck keeping a hive going. But will the 7th hive be the one to finally deliver honey?

Neely Returns to The Wild Basin Nature Preserve

by Neely | May 29, 2018 | Adventure, My Life, Transformation | 0 |

I spent my Memorial Day weekend trying new things, or rather old things that I can do again. Which meant a trip to my favorite nature hike outside town: the Wild Basin Nature Preserve!

Remembering My Father on Memorial Day

by Neely | May 28, 2018 | My Life | 0 |

I wanted to write about my dad today because he was a vet – served 30 years in the Air Force – and today is Memorial Day. I have been privileged to be surrounded by amazing, supportive men. But the jewel in that crown will always be my dad.

Jillian Michaels Beats My Ass

by Neely | Apr 26, 2018 | My Life | 0 |

My almost daily asskicking came in the mail. My husband had ordered it because he “needed a...

RANT: “You’re Fat Because You’re Old and Female”

by Neely | Mar 12, 2018 | My Life | 0 |

Incompetent? Misogynist? Both? How one doctor’s sloppiness effected my life for the worse for years. Is there such a thing as a medially abusive doctor-patient relationship?

Oh no I’m covered in bees!

by Neely | Feb 1, 2018 | My Life | 0 |

Okay, I don’t get covered in bees, but I have had one of my girls chase me around the yard (she had one job to do, dammit, she was going to do it!). And yes if you have taken a guess and thought, “beekeeper”, you’d be on the nose.