Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. I Love thee with the passion put to use. 8211; Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I think that life is a series of losses. In how many years of your life has there not been a loss of some sort? Have you ever gone even six months without losing or letting go of something? In his book,. We may think of grief only as pain.

Sunrise at Mount Haleakalā on Maui. The gratuitous headline actually fits the photo below perfectly. This is February in the Midwest cold, often cloudy, always monochromatic. On Lanai, the landscape has its own beauty and i.

This thought has taken over my already exhausted brain on some kind of evil repeating loop. I am pretty thick-skinned, but the sheer amount of rejections, or worst yet, the continuous silence, is depressing.

In Honor of Our Teachers. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, so it seems like a good time to put into words a post I have been writing in my head for weeks. If you look at just the numbers, ours is a school that some people would choose to avoid. For me, the story begins with our teachers. When my daughter started Kindergarten l.

Asymp; Leave a comment. Just hers and it only took a few hours to put it all back in order.

Getting through life one chuckle at a time. Fly, Turkey, Fly! Asymp; Leave a comment.

Summer is about the most demoralizing time for a runner. But, summer running is a whole another thing. I can now say that those were the good ole years; terrifying yes but also lots of fun in between. The best part? Now, I run for fun as long as I want, in summer and winter, because I can and not because I have to. Trail running is still my favorite b.