Dropping a Child at College: The Emotional Side
Michelle's boys: first day of school for 9 + 5 year old on top; first day of school for 16 + 12 year old on bottom. "Oh my heart," she says. One of the rules I—Dimity—made for my kids [...]
What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Taking My Daughter to College
What I Did on My Summer Vacation continues with Tish sharing how she closed the chapter on one season of motherhood, but opened an entirely new chapter to her future. (Missed our other posts? Read how Coach Amanda and [...]
Twin Cities Marathon: Don’t Blink
Sarah and Eamon: BRFs since 2008! For AMR Creative Coach Sarah Wassner Flynn, becoming a mom and becoming a marathoner have both been extremely transformative experiences. The other day, I dropped my off 14-year-old son, Eamon, [...]
What I Did(n’t) Do on My Summer Vacation
Michelle San Antonio continues our short series of essays we’re doing in August: What I Did on My Summer Vacation. She shares how summer outings have changed as her kids have gotten older, but they're still just as sweet. [...]
A Week’s Worth of Dinner Recipes from AMR
One of the most enticing parts of a training plan is the certainty over what needs to be done each day. There’s a start date, an end date, and all the days in between have specific instructions so you [...]
Ultra Sunday
On top of the trends, my kids run barefoot. This post is a repeat from exactly 12 years ago: we originally published it on May 24, 2010, just two months after our first book came out. The other [...]
Running with the Girls
During the pandemic, I started a new thing with the girls: running with them. (One of the many “new things” I started - didn’t we all!?) They have seen their dad and me lace up our shoes and head out [...]
Walking With Mother
Mother went for a walk today. Sometime around my mother’s 91st birthday, in 2019, she stopped working at the Greensboro Children’s Museum and decided it was time to move in with one of her three children. (Yes, that’s right, she [...]
Shoes on the Ground: Mother Runners Connect for Ukraine
Like so many mother runners, I don’t know how to lessen the horror happening in Ukraine. I wish I could bring the safety of my house to all of the Ukrainian people who go to sleep not knowing who [...]
Our AMR Anniversary: A Dozen Years of Many Happy Miles
Even though, time has been a bit of a blur for the past two —or is it five?—years, we do know that March 2010 marks the anniversary of the launch of Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving and [...]