Last week I wrote about the end of my run streak. It's been two weeks since it ended now, and I'm still feeling okay about that. There was one day that I put on a t-shirt that says, "I just felt like running" (see below). I'd gotten it to celebrate my "Gump Day" (the day… Continue reading A beginning…
On May 9th, 2018, I ran a mile. It was rough--I hadn't gone for a run in a long time but, as I've written about before, my career was in transition, and I was feeling very unsettled. Someone I went to high school with had posted about her run streak on Facebook a few days… Continue reading An end…
If you're a regular reader of my blog, first of all, thank you! Secondly, you probably remember a post at the beginning of the year where I talked about my AL Project. This was going to be the year that I really worked on self-improvement and health! One part of my project included getting a… Continue reading Advocate for yourself!
I got the rare opportunity this week to see Hamilton, the musical, not once but twice in Des Moines. The first viewing was on Thursday--The Bearded One had gotten us tickets for my birthday (he obviously knows how much I love the theatre). And he got us really good seats, too--we were in about the… Continue reading Standby
CW: school shootings My niece turned seventeen today. She's fabulous, and I wish her the happiest of birthdays, of course, but her turning seventeen got me to thinking about when I was seventeen. Not quite three months after my seventeenth birthday, in the spring of 1999, two students went into Columbine High School and killed… Continue reading Seventeen
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