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  • A Woman Alone – Travel Thoughts

    Back in July, my father gifted a book titled A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe. I had never heard of the book before but the concept intrigued me for obvious reasons. Thanks to my book project I did not have a chance to read the book until the first week of this…

  • Greenville News Run Downtown 2018 – Race Recap

    Race #140 5k #49 2018 Race #1 2017 5k #1 Greenville News Run Downtown 5k #6 After the unsuccessful PR effort at Jingle Jingle back in December, I briefly entertained another PR attempt here since I was already registered, emphasis on briefly. Instead, I shifted my focus, as planned to half marathon training since the…

  • World War II – A Reframed View

    While at the beach over Christmas, every evening we settled in to watch a couple episodes of a 2009 documentary titled “World War II in Color.” I learned a lot watching this mminiseries, not academically, but philosophically. This miniseries helped me reflect on the effect of war and also the role of the United States…

  • A 2017 Retrospective

    As I reflect on 2017 and reread my three, yes three, goal posts from the beginning of that year, I am struck by how appropriate my theme for 2018 really is. If I had applied that theme to my actions in 2017, I believe that I would have had greater success. For this post, I…

  • 2018: The Deep Dive

    With the start of the new year comes a preponderance of resolutions, anti-resolutions, intentions and every shade in between. I have found myself in many of those camps. I have made specific resolutions. I have made goals, goals upon goals. Last year, I set up some intentions which I will revisit in next week’s post.…

  • Hair of the Dog 10 Miler – “Race Recap”

    Also known as the race that didn’t happen. After my experience last year I was sure that I would run this race every year, make it a holiday habit like the TreesGreenville Turkey Day 8k. After this year’s experience, I scour race listings to find another race with which to kick off the new year.…

  • The Book Project

    Back in spring of this year, I embarked on a project that has taken me months to complete. That project? Downsizing my book collection. Anyone that knows me would have a hard time figuring out why I embarked on such a project. After all, I am the girl who routinely received stacks of books for…

  • Hilton Head Jingle Jingle 5k 2017 – Race Recap

    Race #139 5k #48 2017 Race #21 2017 5k #5 Hilton Head Jingle Jingle 5k #3 Like I mentioned last year, I planned and executed a dedicated training plan for this race in the hopes that I would make my 5k PR not so much of an anomaly and try to PR. This course could…

  • Simple Living Aspirations

    Anyone who knows me, knows that I rarely sit and do one thing at a time. While I read, I walk around. While I watch TV, I cross stitch. While I work on school-related things, I listen to podcasts. My grandma once asked me if my hands were ever still. Nope. As I mentioned before,…

  • Feeling Left Behind

    As the oldest grandchild on both sides of my family, I accomplished a lot of firsts for the new generation. I was the first born, obviously, the first to go to school, the first the graduate from high school and then college. As I entered adulthood these firsts slowed until they now have trickled into…

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