I “Elphaba’d” Myself This Week on Wicked Day (10/30/10) but Tenley (foreground) really gets the credit for “defying gravity” in her American Academy of Ballet Performance (10/23/10), for which she was awarded a gold medal (photo credit: Bill Lucas)
Just For One Day
A blog post popped up on my Facebook today that changed my blog post topic for tonight and how my entire day will go tomorrow. The Communication Shutdown will help raise funds for and awareness of autism worldwide. Jess’s post, which was followed a bit later by its twin post on Luau’s blog, invited us to join her in […]
Your Home is My Home (A Mama Kat Writing Workshop Prompt)
For tonight’s post, the random number generator handed me prompt #2: If you could witness (or take part in) any event in history, what would it be? Why? This sounded deceptively easy until I tried to decide what historic event I would write about. My decision coalesced when I was commenting on Dan Rockwell’s Leadership Freak […]
Good Plain Fun (A Mama Kat Writing Workshop Prompt)
Note: I am reposting this (originally written in April 2010) because it is the post I had in mind when I suggested to Mama Kat that one of her weekly writing prompts be: a book (or something) you loved as a kid that you see completely differently now that you are an adult/mom. That was certainly […]
Wordless Wednesday (Vote! Edition)
It’s not the hand that signs the law that holds the destiny of AmericaIt’s the hand that casts the ballot-Harry S. Truman
Thoughts As I Close in on 60 DWR*
*DWR = Days Without Running When I look back at my training logs, especially from the perspective of the time that has elapsed, I can pinpoint my injury to early July 2010, when I decided to do some homegrown speedwork. What I thought was plantar fasciitis ended up being more of an ankle joint/tendon injury, […]