Finish an ice cream sandwich. Feel an overwhelming (but ridiculous) sense of guilt. Go to bed, promising that tomorrow will be different. Get up. Forget that today is different. Have Pop-Tarts for breakfast. Decide that …
Just in case you’re not stalking me and know exactly where I’ve said I’ll be every moment, here’s an excerpt from my 2018 New Year’s Resolutions post: Half marathon training. My Triumphant Return To Running will …
WHOOSH! Another year passed. It’s certainly not a myth that the years seem to go by faster and faster as we age. I keep wondering if time is moving faster? Or if I’m slowing down …
It’s Wednesday. According to my pal Hal (you know — Hal Higdon, creator of famous half marathon running plans), it’s either a cross-training day or I should be running 2 miles. Instead, I’m on the …
I’ve got this thing that I’ve been keeping secret, playing pretty close to the vest, really. Partly because it’s one of those things that’s special and it’s fun to take it out and marvel at …
I’ve got a new obsession — it’s a podcast called “Writing Class Radio”, which I serendipitously stumbled across in some other podcast or blog, and I downloaded one episode, just to see what it was …
Disclaimer: what follows is about 3,000 words of me prattling on about my day hiking in Sedona. If you’d like to just see the pretty pictures, click this link and you can skip all the …
Turns out, I can do things on a whim! I’m impulsive! A few weeks ago I happened to think to look up where Elizabeth Gilbert was going to be speaking (I had seen her a …
How do you define “success”? making a certain amount of money? winning an age group medal in a race? moving into the coveted corner office? going viral on social media? having your blog read and …
As I was heavy-breathing through the last few intervals of my run the other day, I started thinking about my long history with this weird little pastime. I don’t need to survive by catching my dinner. …
