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 …
Maybe it’s the things we struggle through the hardest, that shape and form us. Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating and even gruesome, may make …
Maybe, it was all the Pinterest. Maybe, it was the stress of finals, but in the somewhere along the way, I decided to make many Christmas gifts this year. It took a little practice to relearn how to cross-stitch, but I caught on again! I found myself thinking about the person I was making …
There’s is something about today that seems significant, worth stopping for a minute and writing, reflecting. Maybe it’s the tweets and status updates that mark this day of 12/12/12, but for me there’s something more personally meaningful about today. I’m halfway through with my MDiv program and while Bon Jovi’s song seems particularly relevant to …
Just because I can’t run, doesn’t mean I can’t explore running gear : ) I had one of these in Germany!
Jus’ Running (@jusrunning) 11/26/12, 7:55 AM Jane’s Mon. group leaving from Jus’ Running (523 Merrimon Ave.) at 6pm for 4-5 miles (10 min. pace) this evening. Free & open to the public. Love living in Asheville!
I like to consider myself a diligent student, especially when it comes to languages because I have been in a foreign country and I have taught a foreign language, so I know the frustration of being a teacher of languages. But if I am honest with myself, I haven’t been a good Hebrew student. I …
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I still put on my running clothes everyday. Even though I can’t run like I want to, I still have to “suit up” and walk or even do housework because running is part of my routine, my decompression, my sanity. If I can put on the gear, then I can get my head to the …
