It’s been over six months since I separated from my soon-to-be ex. There are days when it seems like it all happened yesterday and days when it seems like it happened eons ago.
These last six months have not been easy. There have been days, hell weeks, when I have really struggled with it. When I [...]
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Without a doubt, running has become an integral part of my life. Once I began training for the Marine Corps Marathon in mid-2007, my love affair with running was reignited and it has not faultered since.
On Saturday I ran the National Half Marathon in Washington, DC and did something amazing: I set a personal record. [...]
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I am very excited to announce that I am now writing for a marvelous website called My It Things. Essentially it’s a site where I can write about the things I love - be it food or clothing or technology or damn near anything in between. And because I can write as little or as often [...]
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Recently, my friend Jen treated me to a vegetarian cooking class at Quality Street. It was my birthday present from her, and I had been looking forward to it for months. And I wasn’t disappointed, not one bit bite.
Our chef was the cute and knowledgable Michael Kelley from the Brome Howard Inn, and with his [...]
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Okay body, I’m getting pretty tired of this. Tired of this tired feeling. Tired of being fuzzy in the morning, and it’s not even that I-drank-too-much-wine-last-night kind of fuzzy. Instead it’s that I-only-have-24-hours-in-a-day-and-I-really-need-26-or-27-or-40 kind of fuzzy.
Admittedly, some (read: most) of this exhaustion is self-induced. I have a very bad habit of trying to do IT [...]
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