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Sometimes the most valuable lessons come from changing course. Back on June 25th of this summer, I shouldered my pack and set off on what was supposed to be a 500-mile adventure. My husband and I were setting out to thru-hike the Colorado Trail (CT). Although we were experienced backpackers, we had never undertaken a […]
Let me be clear. I am not writing a self-help blog. I am not a life coach, I don’t profess to be a superior athlete, a nutritionist, or doctor of any type. But I am a woman who has entered middle age and have learned a few things…. I have always been a procrastinator. I have always thought […]
(warning – longer than usual post, and probably far more about me personally than I have ever shared). My friends and I have had a running joke involving New Years resolutions this year. We make declarations and pronouncements and then it all goes awry… we eat that sugary food, we don’t go to the proclaimed exercise […]
As I have a rare moment this Mother’s day morning to sit and peruse my facebook feed, I am happy to see so many posts about and pictures of friends with their mothers – and I am startled to realize that it’s been 10 years that I haven’t had mine around me. I am startled not […]
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