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…
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
I was just getting inside from taking my dog on her bedtime potty walk and realized that I hadn't written a post for this week yet. But I'm prioritizing my health and sleep over trying to write something that has any significant meaning this week. So. Enjoy the picture of a moth on a log… Continue reading The break continues…
It's been a long week. Actually, it's been a long couple of weeks. Finishing up my second semester of grad school, dealing with some health issues, someone close to me dealing with major health issues. It's just been busy and emotional and hard. There has been some good coming out of it all too, and… Continue reading Giving myself a break.
Today I completed four years of running at least a mile every.single.day. I've probably mentioned it before, but when I started my streak in 2018, I was looking for something stable that I could control. I had submitted my resignation for my job, and knew I was burned out teaching Spanish, but I didn't have… Continue reading Four years…
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