I like sweets and I like to bake. I love chocolate, cupcakes, cookies, you name it - I will bake it, then eat it. However, I also like to eat healthy and stay fit. And I am figuring out that those cookies I ate the other night don’t come off as easily as they once did in the past.

Many hikers have heard it before … the eerie sound of a distant rattle. Your heart starts to beat rapidly, your eyes shift back and forth in their sockets, searching for the camouflaged beast in the dry, sandpaper bushes. 

It’s hot. You feel sweaty, sticky and irritable. And you just can’t get away from it.

“I’m going to start eating healthy!” is a sentence I say more than I should. Sure, it is easy to say… But much harder to do.

I started this piece in June and it was set to publish for July 2. But Mother Nature had other plans and the Sleepy Hollow Fire hit Wenatchee hard instead.

Cathy Covey, my mother and owner of The Inner Circle Gym, knows what it’s like to work for a living. If it isn’t working behind her computer to ensure the growth of her business, it is working out on a gym floor with her clients, showing them a variety of movements for a full-body, intense workout.