Sheila (looking impossibly cute!) and me mid-run, trying to outdo the leaves with our vivid colors. Not to get all woo-woo on you, but I sometimes feel like there's a greater force at work that determines when and [...]
Today...and pretty much every other day. Dimity has already made a chocolate tart--including a crust from scratch, a first for her--but before we plunge our hands into turkeys and start peeling mountains of potatoes, we wanted to share [...]
Oh, the irony: I had named this photo "the three amigas" when I saved it on my computer in September. My next race was all lined up: the Holiday Half in mid-December in Portland. My usual running pal, [...]
Can't, for the life of me, find photos of Molly, Kristin, and me after our first training run, so this one of Molly and me before our half-marathon will stand in for it. (Sorry!) Two weeks ago yesterday, [...]
Glad Dimity captured this image as I have very little memory of seeing my posse of supporters near Mile 15. But this BAMR was smiling! In the starting corral of Sunday's Twin Cities Marathon, Shannon, a mother runner [...]
My parents with my three kiddos this summer. (Note my dad's Runner's World tee!) My mother was very much on my mind during my weekend long run: At 86, she's having hip replacement surgery today. I'm spending this [...]
25 Things still lingers in the pages of USWeekly (SBS brush with celebrity: I saw Denise & her daughters at Disneyland last week!) Remember when that “25 Things You Don’t Know about Me?” questions were all the rage [...]
Wow. We had such a bippity-boppity-boo ball at the Disneyland Half Marathon this weekend. The biggest thing that went wrong was our plans to run with the 2:15 and 2:30 pace groups went astray for various reasons--I had to take [...]
This ditalini-and-white-beans recipe might well be my favorite dish. (Photo courtesy of epicurious.com) Know how a vehicle needs the right type of gas to perform at its best? If you drive a Lexus or Volvo, fill it with [...]
Two goofy moms with 12 cents Let me share a theory I have: While on a run, if you don't stop to pick up the first change you see on the road--be it a penny, nickel, dime, or [...]
