It was just a one mile race, but I can’t help but dream of all the start lines we may line up at together. I ran my first race with my mom, many years ago. I never could have imagined that I would go on to run my first half, full and ultra marathon standing by her side. You never know when a simple moment could lead to a lifetime of memories…
No one can prepare you for being a parent. Before the first baby arrives, whether calming or overwhelming, you find yourself inundated with information, advice, opinions. So much so that one of the most popular pieces of advice one now receives is to not listen to too much advice. Funny right…
This morning I decided to try out a new routine. The plan was to get up nice and early, around 5:30 or 6 o’clock, a good hour and a half before Maya, my one-year-old daughter, wakes up. Of course I hadn’t taken into account our super squeaky stairs. The squeak-factor is not something new, but rather a fact of life we have been dealing with since she was born…
I have absolutely no idea what we did in my first yoga class. There are really only 2 things I do remember. The first is that I could not understand why on earth the teacher kept referring to Down Dog as a resting pose. Nothing about standing on all fours with one’s butt in the air was restful to me…
I don’t know about you, but there are so many things I would love to accomplish in my day and week. However, for many reasons, some of which I have to take full responsibility for and others are beyond my control, I accomplish very few of them…
What season of life are you currently in? Is life sailing along smoothly? Are you
in a state of limbo? Or perhaps you are in a particularly challenging period of life? No matter which it is, it is easy to slip into believing that wherever you are is permanent. Right? Maybe its just me… I can easily remember the darkest periods of my life feeling as if there was no way out. Alternatively, the good days felt so easy to hold onto…