Amy and Annie
I want to tell you about two incredible women: Amy and Annie. The July 20 issue of my local paper, the Westminster Window, which unfortunately does not post its stories on-line, had a truly inspiring story written by Krystal Fowler …
Act as if
I enjoy reading books by Laurell K. Hamilton. I have read them all. Luckily, she also blogs, so I can read how her books are coming along while they are being written. Yesterday (August 12), she wrote a great post …
Marathon Plan Week 19 of 24
I have a very hard time getting past the half-marathon distance. This is about where I plateaued the last time I tried to train for a marathon. On the schedule today was a 2 hour and 30 minute run (min) …
Nature vs. Nurture
Hui Zhou raised some interesting points in the comments to my 15 mile race results post. He even when on to write about some of our very divergent views on this issue. I made a comment about not having natural …
Seeking Common Ground
Today I attended a luncheon celebrating the 13 annual Building Bridges for Peace hosted by the non-profit Seeking Common Ground. Until a colleague invited me to attend yesterday, I had not heard of this organization. Until today, when I read …
Official 15 mile results
Rocky Mountain Road Runners posted the official 15 mile marathon training series race results. My final time was 2:44:57. My husband beat me by 22 seconds. There were 36 women and 28 men. Only 6 people were slower than I …
Good Neighbors
I sometimes come across stories that fill me with hope about humanity and yet they are the types of stories that would never be written about professionally. Here are three of them. Skwigg wrote about how she came across “the …
15 mile race
The 15 mile marathon training series race sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Road Runners was this morning. My running partner from the 10 mile race could not make it but my husband did the race with me. My husband does …
Slaying Dragons
I recently sent a collection of children's fiction to a friend with young children. As I was looking through my library for age appropriate books, I flipped through Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I love the quote he put in the …
Words that caught my eye
Driving home last night the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that said "Change is inevitable; Growth is optional." I wish these words were mine. I am tempted to hang them on my office door. There are …