Many of the houses went all out on their decorations. Others, not so much. My house was one of the latter. I put out a bowl of candy and was on my way. YaYa and I hooked up with the neighbor kids (Yoda and the Storm Trooper) for a block of fun. After that, YaYa [...]

Tell me, why  don’t we talk to strangers?   It’s not like it is always a bad thing.  Besides…we blog!  We talk to strangers ALL the time.  Right? Anyway, take my recent experience of stranger-talk, for example:  While hanging out in my start corral at the Nike Women’s Marathon, I met a couple of really nice [...]

Last night, I decided to join the early morning crowd at my gym for scheduled my cross-training. I’m back on a schedule you know. I have commitments. I have to be accountable to Coach. I set the alarm clock for 5 am, informed YaYa of my plans, and went to bed. It took a while [...]

Being a guest blogger is an interesting concept. For reasons which now escape me, I assumed that my post on Brit’s Running Stitch would gather the same readers’ commenting as my own blog. Wrong! For one thing, Brit writes a lot about her creative endeavors (quilting, cooking, gardening, etc). I have enjoyed clicking over to [...]