“Spare me a week of faux soul searching,” I’d say in my cynical, New-York-circa-early-2000s fashion, whenever my middle-aged Bikram teacher requested a moment of silence for gratitude. I mean, my twenty-something, cough, thirty-something self always considered practicing gratitude cliche. Something my friends who visited Ashrams did. It took a while, involving legit, hostel-living, south-of-the-equator soul-searching.
Another lockdown, this time in winter, and Christmas in a pandemic. If you are feeling the heaviness of this past year, you are not alone. Research shows that more women experience anxiety than men, especially since the start of the pandemic. Results from analyses of Google trends reveal that searches involving words such as “loneliness,” “worry,” and “sadness,” are increasing in many countries.
Last month, Tante Pia received fan mail asking the burning question of this season: How do I stay warm during cold weather running? This month, Tante Pia teams up with Über Moms President, Jordan Sapir, to get all you mom runners prepared for the running season ahead.
Germans say there is no bad weather, just the wrong clothing. So dig out your Turkey Trot Tee, circa 1998 (read further to find out why you shouldn’t do this), and prepare to win this winter, running!
We are in our second lockdown, and, like all good sequels, it is not a carbon copy of the original. But, like all bad sequels, something feels different, in a hmmm, I’m not sure about this kind of way. Or maybe it’s just me? The not-knowing, the uncertainty, remains, but there is a weariness setting in. Lots of people more qualified, and more eloquent, than I, have written about it, so I will not go on analysing it.
The phone rings. I can’t pick it up. The incessant ringing persists, but the phone won’t connect. I can hear my aunt, in Maryland, on the line. She’s trying to get her message through the white noise. Each and every time, she fails. I fail to answer, to hear her frantic pleas. Beads of sweat drip down my forehead. I awake in a state of panic. My nightgown is drenched and I’m in a cold sweat. I soon realize it’s a dream. A recurring dream.
The topic of this month at Über Moms is Cold Weather Winning. In our current global climate, it's easy to remember all the things I’m missing and dwell on how horrible it is that everything is out of whack. By the time September rolled around, I found myself muttering about the German fall foliage appearing without warning, how the Föhn is making my head spin, and why I live in a city that prides itself on beer, despite there being no seasonal cider, stout or ale.
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