About

What the Heck is Just Cranky?

It's the reincarnation of Cranky Fitness, a health and fitness blog started by Jan Graham (writing as Crabby McSlacker) back in the ancient days of 2007. 

Ms. Graham is now writing fiction, and she would like to find a few readers. But she was too lazy to start a whole new Author Blog from scratch. So much easier to just change the title! 

Continuing in the Cranky Fitness tradition, Just Cranky will feature a skeptical take on pretty much everything. This is basically an outlet for a cantankerous human female who has a lot of opinions and complaints. You can also find her on Threads as Jantankerous.

Spoiler alert: she is no longer young. Along with her medicare card she has now been issued a whole new set of health-related issues to complain about. Yet she likes to pretend she can exercise her way out of them.

 

Ms. Graham is now happily retired, but she is not sure where she lives. Is it Provincetown MA? San Diego or San Francisco, California? Valencia, Spain? You would think that would be an easy question to answer, but you'd be wrong.

She has been a Life and Wellness Coach, an ACE certified Health Coach, and may even still hold an inactive license as a California Marriage and Family Therapist, although it has been a long while since she has therapized anyone. Oh, and eons ago she used to be an attorney, which seems awfully unlikely, doesn't it?

(Coming soon evenually, her most recent novel: Niccolo Would Like a Word. More info and details forthcoming.)

Who is "The Lobster?"

You may see references in older posts to "The Lobster." She is not actually a lobster, she is a very accomplished and entertaining human. But as the wife of "The Crab," aka Crabby McSlacker, aka Jan Graham, it made more sense back then.

  
The Crab and The Lobster have been together since 1990 and were married in Massachusetts. They both grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

There are quite a few Previous Contributors. What they are up to now? Probably something fun! But unfortunately I've lost track. Last I heard:

Jan Bono writes books! Many of them, and unlike the other Jan, she has a proper author website at Jan Bono Books. 

Tiffany Reiss was last seen serving as an adjunct faculty member for Seattle University, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, American Public University and Walden University. 

The Merry used to have a fun blog called Sheesh.

Jo was hanging out at Head Nurse with a down-to-earth glimpse of the nursing profession and what goes in hospitals.

Gigi was last seen at Chunky Monkey Mama, another fine former blog.