Bicycle, bicycle . . .
Pretty please? Before I re-started my running life, I wondered why it was that so many of my new co-workers were either marathoners or some other form of endurance sport competitors. While training for...
View ArticleRace Report: Maine Marathon 1/2
Maine Marathon #2 (last year relay – this year 1/2!) The only picture: Why does my child look unhappy? What?! He’s going to be outside in the rain for 2+ hours? What’s NOT fun about that!? I tried to...
View ArticleLost & Found
I lost Colby today. Before that, though, my day was frantic if normal. I even made time to go to the new makeup store with a friend. I’m having difficulty being productive in between schlepping...
View ArticlePush ‘Pause’
Like this – but in a snow storm When people ask me how we’re doing, how life is, I inevitably reply “crazy” and then immediately feel like an asshole. Here’s the thing – we are living the same...
View ArticleSpring Fever
My father and I have this thing where, most afternoons, we call each other and see how the day went. The conversation is predictable: An ‘A’ day, not an ‘A’ day, or even worse – “a Day”. Today was a...
View ArticleSurprise!
Gotcha! Nothing juicy here, just a little Sunday morning productivity. To me, the productivity part is a bigger surprise than an unintended pregnancy. I’ve been up since 4:30. I had a dream that I was...
View ArticleWhat’s New?
I feel like summer is a boulder rolling, rolling, rolling downhill and picking up speed. I want it to stop. STOP. Now. Thanks. My wedding registry tells me there are 57 days left until the wedding....
View ArticleThe First Two Miles
One needs to know me for about five minutes before they know without a doubt that I am not a morning person. the rare and coveted morning run Just a couple of days ago, Matt tried to wake me up in,...
View ArticleSurviving Soccer Season
While the end of soccer season always brings a visceral, and bittersweet, relief, the beginning sneaks up on us. A practice here, a game there, until BAM. It’s October and everyone is out of clean...
View ArticleAftershocks
A post in which I use a tired metaphor because my brain is tired and I can’t really think of anything else. If I were a geologist, I would have seen the earthquake coming. Unless it’s one of those...
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