Life By Design
https://youtu.be/cQbpdOK7nVA I sat terrified staring at the McCall’s pattern envelope. The 1950’s style sketch on the outside showed a spunky blonde-haired teen in a yellow knee-length skirt with a sassy kick pleat. It wasn’t the contents of the envelope that scared me, it was the instructions that came with it. It was 1980. I sat […]
Life is Like a Crockpot – How to Savor the Slow in a Microwave World
We tossed our microwave. In our new chapter of “Empty Nest-hood” it seemed a symbolic, yet radical move. The past 20 years had been a whirlwind of activity, raising two kiddos, running our businesses, doing all the things a family in the twenty-first century seemed “required” to do. In 2017 when the dust of child […]
Stronger in the Second Half
https://youtu.be/MPlZYh85XLU Hit the wall … Bonk … depleted … defeated … done. Running a marathon is no joke. It’s ultimately not a race of speed, but of strategy. Not of physical strength alone, but also strength of mindset. The ideal way to finish the race is stronger and faster in the second half. It’s what […]
Love is Like a River
Love is like a river. Fierce and wild yet simultaneously gentle, gathering into deep and steady reflecting pools. It inhabits a persistent hunger to keep flowing lest it grow stagnant and stale. It swells with the rhythmic pace of the seasons and then slows to a patient hum, decidedly carving out a well worn path […]
An Ode to Dave – A Legacy of Friendship
“I don’t ride, I train.” That seemingly cocky rebuff should have sent my husband packing. Instead it launched a lifelong friendship, an addiction to cycling, and the foundation for leading a disciplined life. Dave Croker was the very personification of self control. Athletically lean, chiseled muscle from head to toe, he carried out every detail […]