Shoulder to Shoulder, Toe to Toe

I woke up this morning to a guest post just begging to be added to my blog.  After experiencing technical difficulties connecting his computer with our printer, my sixteen year old son, Blaise, had forwarded hishomework to my email account and printed it from there.  Being the writing and editing mom that I am, I [...]

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I Believe

Two weeks ago, as I was still caked in mud and blood from my trail race, I sat on the floor of my kitchen, a sobbing mess as my mother told me about her latest health issue.  She had spent the night in the hospital aftercoughing up blood and after blood tests and x-rays the [...]

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If It Were Easy

Running a marathon is hard. Hell, training for a marathon can be downright excruciating.   Those are pretty obvious statements, right?   They are pretty obvious unless you are, like me, always harder on yourselfthan others.  When I first started running marathons I thought I was just really bad at it.  I didn’t understand why I didn’t glide [...]

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Total Abandon

When I brought Zane home from the hospital, I remember worrying about how his tiny head flopped around in the car seat.  I remember worrying about how my big clumsy dogs would react to a helpless newborn in the house.  I remember worrying every time one of the older kids would pick him up and [...]

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