For most people in their fifties, shying away from new experiences that challenge your sense of fear is the norm. This Geriatric Gymnast has decided that running towards it and challenging the fear itself is the better part of valor. At 36, I took a huge leap. I decided, as a full-time working mom, that I would take my first recreational gymnastics class.

It's now been six months since I've started the GLP-1 chapter of managing my perimenopausal weight. Slow and steady like the tortoise, I have achieved the weight loss I sought. At the beginning of August 2025, I made the decision (with my endocrinologist) to start a Zepbound regimen. I wrote a two-month update in October (GLP-1 and Me), and it had been going well on the lowest dose, which I stayed on for the first 16 weeks.

On one of my recent TikTok posts of my work on bars, someone commented: What’s your goal? Very impressive. I liked that question. Made me think for a minute.  My reply: Thank you! I’ve decided to participate in a couple of competitions this season for the first time. Working on these routines helps give me direction, motivation and specific focus when I go to the gym.

2025 was the year of recovery. My Achilles tendon at gymnastics two weeks before the new year, and I spent the next twelve months healing and rehabilitating. My goal was to return to the "normal" version of myself as soon as my body was ready for it. One year later, I think I can safely say I've achieved that goal.

Oh, what a difference a year makes. 12 months ago, I was laid up on the couch in a cast. Today, I have 365 days worth of recovery stories. This is my end-of-year recap.

These are some of the songs I sang for the Jacob Sloat House at their 2025 Victorian Holiday celebration.

I've seen so many people awaken their inner child in my adult gymnastics classes. If you need to make a case for starting gymnastics, this is it.

Time for a little update about my recent midlife therapeutic interventions.

Ask and ye shall receive. This encapsulates some of the incredible feedback I received from the beta reading team for my upcoming book, Geriatric Gymnastics: Flipping, Recovery an Defining Life on Your Terms.

I've written plenty about my health/nutrition/weight maintenance experience as a woman steeped in perimenopause. The reality: it just gets harder to keep up as the years pass, as the hormones wane, and as I go out and do more adult-y things (like eating at restaurants). This article is about my decision to try the GLP-1 route. During the summer, I went to all my yearly doctor checkups: internist, gynecologist, and endocrinologist.

There’s a new sound in my teaching universe that has become my new happy sound at work. It’s not a song. It’s literally just a sound.

Do I really need ANOTHER social media platform to keep track of? I suppose I do...

Genetic testing for cancer markers feels like a big deal. It's like walking a tightrope of wanting and not wanting to know what the future might hold. This is my experience.