Packages are unwrapped. Christmas leftovers are dwindling. Must be time for New Year’s resolutions.

One of mine is stretching.

I usually carve just enough time out of the day to walk or run. No extra minutes for cooling down. 

I’m trying to change that. To come inside, keep the music in my ears and give my muscles time to soften and pull back into place.

There’s only one problem. I walk to think, too, and if the ideas have been bubbling, I need to jot them down before they slip away. So the other day I came up with a solution: writing and stretching at the same time. Sounds crazy, but it works.

Stretching the body, stretching the mind.