I find I am best about exercise if I set myself up with a challenge. Unfortunately, I am realizing repeating a challenge doesn’t do it for me. Back in the days, I was marathoning, I dreamed of running a marathon in every state. With ten marathons I had successfully done: The Marine Corps Marathon in…
As I work to complete the 2020 challenge (run/walk 2020 miles in 2020) I find myself missing running more and more. I miss the runner’s high. I miss the races. I miss the camaraderie. Several legacy moments spring to mind when I think about the days I would race. I knew I could never place…
A few days back I was chatting with some girlfriends and the subject of having things explode came up. The front runner for greatest disaster was forgetting to pierce potatoes and having them explode, this was the front runner until I shared my story. My girls were still fairly young, maybe five and seven, when…
Since the initial cancer diagnosis, I have never doubted that we would get it all. This was one of those nuisance things, not something that could potentially be fatal. I was driving to a client site with a colleague and said to him, “The upside of cancer…” He paused my thought to say, “You are…
From São Paulo, Brazil On September 18, 2017, I was 35 years old and was born my second child, through a successful Caesarean section and in an environment of much love and happiness. A week after childbirth, I fainted at home and rushed to the hospital with a severe uterine hemorrhage. With low blood pressure…
Growing up we never had a housekeeper, with eight of us there was always a chore list of who was responsible for what. As a single mom, I found it more of a necessity than a luxury. Over the years I’ve had some amazing housekeepers, some with interesting quirks. When we lived in Southern Maryland,…