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 [...]

  I was asked to provide a guest blog post on Brit’s Running Stitch in celebration of her 4th blogoversary week.   Each day this week, Brit’s blog will highlight a different guest blogger. Little old me was the 1st to contribute to the celebration, and I truly am honored.     I even dusted [...]