
What am I Doing Wrong? – Part 2
Question – A follow-up, if I may. Why does heart rate matter so much? Am I right, do I have to choose between getting fit or losing weight?
It’s not easy to figure out the answer because different sources tell you different things depending on what the source believes is more important for scientific, medical or profitable reasons. Read More
What am I doing wrong? Questions about Finders Keepers
Question 1: A year ago I read Finders Keepers and was so inspired by Marissa’s story that I embarked on my own get healthy program. I wrote you a while ago that I’d lost 20 pounds and was feeling great. But the last month I’ve started gaining weight back and I’m doing the exact same thing I was before. Help! You’re my guru. What am I doing wrong? What would Marissa do? Read More
One Blessed Thing After Another
Since leaving home and the shelter of my father’s toolbox and fix-it-ness, I’ve lived in apartments, one older house and two new homes. I have preferred the new homes in spite of their generic qualities and my inability to ever finish decorating them. They don’t require relationships with repair people. Living in the Bay Area, with its extensive housing boom, means that there are fewer true handypeople around who want to repair what exists rather than rip it out and install new. Read More
The Old Game of Telephone – Alive and Well on the Internet
As a lurker on a few blogs, for personal and professional reasons, I often run across mention of my work or me in surprising contexts. One of the reasons I lurk is that readers are perfectly free to have a public discussion of the writer “Karin Kallmaker” and their comments I know are directed at the books or the writer, not the person. I lurk because I don’t want to interfere in whatever it is that readers want to discuss. (Though of course, it bears repeating that a “private” conversation doesn’t exist on the Internet.) Read More




