Mother’s Day and Mom’s Journey with Alzheimer’s Disease
Mother’s Day was bittersweet for me this year. As I stand here hundreds of miles away from my own Mom I am brought to tears. Yes I am lucky to be my age and still have my Mother and I know that, but...
View ArticleMotivational Monday – The Historic Half – What I Learned About Me
Quick Motivational Monday and Historic Half recap in words and pictures: Things learned from a truly hot and hilly half marathon. Hills are tough, I am tougher I need more hill training in my life...
View ArticleOn the Move (almost) Part 1 – Motivational Monday
Motivational Monday: God is the same today, tomorrow and always Hebrews 13:8 New International Version (NIV) 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. No matter what is going on in...
View ArticleRun, Hike, and Find Your Happy Pace!
How did you welcome 2016? We had a pretty quiet night at home with family. I worked early New Year’s morning but the place was hopping with runners from a local Resolution Run. It was a busy morning...
View ArticleRunning and Hiking and Just Getting Out There!
Getting through our first “winter” in California hasn’t been too challenging. Lets just say now I totally get why they say the average temp is 66 year round here. There were just a few weeks of...
View ArticleThis One is Gonna Hurt. When you know its time for a DNS
February 2017 25K Trail Race My first ever DNS (did not start) But why? Was I sick? No Was I unprepared? I thought so. Hard decision…definetly! Right decision? I still say yes. Does it hurt? A...
View ArticleLife is Short, Buy the Shoes…..for Someone in Need! #WearAPair2017
You know the old saying: Well how about we all do one better? Buy the shoes for a child in need! Oh yeah. Did you know? “Over 2 billion people suffer from soil-transmitted diseases and parasites....
View ArticleThe Not so Pretty Side of a Military Move.
Non-running related. Part of the Finding my happy pace “in life” side of the Run Find your Happy Pace story. Sometimes I find writing is a great place to work things out and hope in the process to...
View ArticleSo its been a (long) while. The good, bad, sad and ugly.
Wait, what? Its been that long? Geez! So what the heck happened to me? Well for one I started working again. So God bless all of you Mom’s who work, run, have kids in sports AND still have time to...
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