Tomorrow morning at 4 AM my friend Alex will be picking me up (or maybe I’ll be stopping by her place — we need to pow wow yet) to drive to Des Moines to get on a plane going to Utah for Blend Retreat.
In case you missed all [...]
In January I decided to give Intuitive Eating a try. It’s been a process, but I’ve been embracing parts of it bit by bit. The final piece that I’ve been working on isn’t about food. It’s about working out intuitively, as in, moving [...]
i probably should elaborate on last week’s post about Boston, but i haven’t had much time to do so. i think i came off as brash, when what i really meant to say is that it bugs me when people get all worked up over things [...]
My friend Sarah’s post about “cutting it out” (“it” being calorie counting and in the style of Joey Gladstone) reminded me that I had a pretty big breakthrough myself yesterday.
As you know, I quit tracking calories in January, and I put my
Mark’s sister and brother-in-law got me a subscription to Runner’s World for Christmas. I have been reading each issue cover to cover whilst enjoying a long bath (the only way to get me to soak in epsom salts for more than 10 minutes — gotta have reading material!).
My favorite part of [...]
If you didn’t catch my musical reference, here’s a video of The Cure‘s “Friday I’m in Love”.
Remember the time that I TOTALLY BORKED MY KNEE? Turns out it wasn’t that borked after all.
[ insert biggest sigh of relief ever. ]
My physical therapist did some [...]
I’m not going to cry complain about how I walked 2 steps outside my door yesterday to let the dog out to pee and promptly sprained my left knee (yes, now I have a sprain on both sides of my body).
Or about how Mark did the exact same thing with his wrist.
Or how [...]
I’ve read about a million 2013 resolutions and goals. Instead of goals or resolutions, I’ve got things I’m focusing on, but, let’s be real, it’s January of 2013. Call it what you want — “goals”, “themes”, or “foci” — all of these are fancy names for the same thing — new year’s resolutions. I’m not going to be one [...]
I hate year in review posts*. Mostly because if you’ve been reading a blog, you know what’s going on with the blogger. So, I’ve been trying to decide if I should write this post or not. Ultimately, I’m writing it on the off chance that my writing this post will help somebody else who’s struggling [...]
I’ve been keeping this mostly to myself so far, but I registered for the 2013 IMT Des Moines Marathon on Monday. It’s on Sunday, October 20, 2013 — 10 months from yesterday, so that should be ample time to train.
I ran the 2008 IMT Des [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee (pronounced CAL-e). If that's too hard, just call me Cal. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 28ish, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.















