Category: fitness

• Five Truly Scary Realizations About Being 30

  

  I blinked, and suddenly it was October 31st, Halloween, and the first year I can remember in which I’ve not dressed up or attended a single party. This has always been one of my favorite holidays…I guess you can say it’s like a part of me has died*. So as I sit here in pajamas at 8:30 p.m. on…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  November 1, 2016

  fitness, food, humor, Life

  aging, halloween, life, turning 30

• The Day I Almost Died Swimming

  

  (Or less melodramatically known as, “The Day I Swam Alone Around the Peninsula”) There were three beaches in Alyki that we frequented, when we weren’t studiously working on our writing (ahem), called Beach 1, 2, and 3. Our workshop leader introduced us to the beaches in this way, but it took me nearly three weeks to…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 12, 2015

  fitness, humor, travel

  Aliki, Archodissa, exercise, Greece, marble quarry, near death experience, sea urchins, swimming, Tassos of Thassos, thasos, travel, writing workshops in Greece

• Ode to Fitbit

  

  My Love for Fitbits Explained Okay, so I need to back it up for the blog readers who don’t know what a Fitbit is, i.e., my parents, and anyone who’s not as fanatically insane about exercising as I am. The Fitbit is a brand of tracking devices that the government uses to learn about our habits…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  May 25, 2015

  fitness, humor, sports

  consumer reviews, customer service, david sedaris, exercise, fitbit, fitness, flex, Matthew Hussey, men are like fitbits, myfitnesspal, open letter, why I love fitbit