Author: Ja

What is November Project?  In a word, it’s family.  It’s young, it’s ‘older’.  It’s female, it’s male.  It’s straight. It’s gay. It’s black, white, brown and yellow.  It’s ripped, it’s trying to get ripped.  It’s slow, it’s fast.  It’s the worst feeling of the day, it’s the BEST feeling of the day.  We all have some form of family and it probably has some or all of what I just said.  We know when to push each other and when we need a push.  We all love each other – just like a family does. read more

Fat and lazy was a pretty apt description of me to start 2017. Successful at work, plenty of friends, no bouts of depression, but morbidly obese and unable to jog down the block. I had no real excuse other than I knew getting healthy was going to take discipline and I wasn’t ready to be disciplined with food or physical activity.  Subtle hints and invitations from friends to join them at the gym didn’t motivate me, nor did less subtle hints from family members. Then I woke up one morning, and in the words of Dean Wormer from that fine movie that is Animal House, finally decided that “fat, drunk and stupid” was no way to go through life. read more