I am not a winter runner who needs to wear gloves. My shirt sleeves are usually long enough for me to make do, but I found out quickly once I started running that my ears were had to be covered. There was something about the wind whipping around my ears that made me want to …
If you are wondering whether there is a rhyme or reason to why runners act a certain way, wonder no longer! There is! If you are running outside on a path, then here a couple of tips that will make you look like a natural: Run on the right: I know this sounds like a …
Really inspiring words, from an inspiring teacher: “I am at the end of my life,” Menasche told USA Today. “I don’t know how much longer I have left, and I just wanted that sense of satisfaction that the time I did have I used well.”
In reading Madeline L’engle’s Walking on Water, I was impressed by her honesty: One of the things that I learned on the road back is that I do not have to be right. I have to try to do what is right, but when it turns out, as happens with all of us to be wrong, to …
Not that I am an expert by any means, but I know what it is like to go from non-runner to runner. I know the excitement and commitment that comes with the resolution to run, but I also know the disappointment that comes just a few weeks later. So, I just wanted to throw a …
There wasn’t any doubt as to what we would be eating on New Year’s Day. It had to be collard greens and black-eyed peas. I certainly wasn’t the only one at the grocery store who was buying these essentials. In fact, around the meat section of the grocery store, a little group gathered to discuss …
It isn’t easy when you realize that you are an adult and if you want to carry on some of your favorite traditions, it’s up to you, especially if you are a forgetful cook like I am! But there’s nothing that will make me preserve through even the hardest cooking challenges like the pressure of …
Well, this morning on the first day of the New Year, I started my day with a cup of coffee with soured milk. My first taste of 2013 and it was sour. It would be easy to cross examine this experience and say that there are unfortunate events ahead for the new year, but I …
Whether you are spending the last day of 2012 with friends or spending it trying to forget the pain and hurt that the year brought, there’s something remarkably important about stopping and looking back. There’s something about putting markers down to remember where we have been and to shape the next part of our journey …
Interestingly, there is a marketing background to the Christmas light tradition that drives us all to bundle in our cars and drive through neighborhoods and businesses. Thomas Edison is behind these twinkle lights and his need to share with the world the wonder of his electric lights drove him and his friend Edward Johnson …
