I call them Goddess Glasses. They are my $5 cheap running sunglasses I got at the discount store. They are not prescription so everything is a nice rosie tinted blur. When I wear them, I am invicable. I am strong. When I put them on, all who see me running sees the me I wish I … More Why Everyone NEEDS Goddess Glasses!
New Years Day , 2017. I am in the mountains of New Hampshire with a wonderful man at a friend’s lake house. We jump into the 45 degree lake taking the polar plunge…me going only up to my thighs and him diving in head first. Shivering, we sip Irish Coffee with a yummy breakfast then … More With Arms Wide Open
1 day more. 1 more school day 1 more day of this incredibly stress filled school year. 1 more day of the middle school crazies. 1 more day of my heart breaking for these broken kids I teach. I became a teacher because I had a favorite developmentally delayed aunt (Aunt Hilda) who I lived … More what I do when life’s a little sideways
The wind whispers outside my window. The birds sing. I lay in bed with my morning coffee, cozy, content, and I press rewind on an incredible week. 6 days ago I ran the Boston Marathon. Bucket list item…CHECK! After a strong training, my legs were ready. My hip was tweaky, but felt strong. I had … More Boston Marathon take-aways
It is marathon week and taper madness has set in. I am officially crazy. I claim it. Acknowledge it. Accept it and hopefully by so doing, I will let it go. I’m a full range of emotions… gleeful, weepy, starving one minute, not hungry the next. I am thirsty, bone tired, and sore in unknown … More Taper Madness…it is REAL
The list of things to do wakes me at night. I get up predawn on a saturday and start working but my mind cannot focus. I get my shoes on and tie up my laces…heading out for a mind clearing run. I forge up hills and into the wind and I am angry. I am … More making it work, one cookie at a time
A week ago I had the privilege to be a guide in the New York City Marathon with a friend of mine who has a mobility disability. I first met Kim a year ago when I sent an SOS out to the local running club for another crazy runner to run with me in the … More NYC marathon…start to finish with incredible nuggets along the way
I ran a race today with my kids as a fund raiser for their school. It was not my weekend with them but they asked me to please run with them and of course I said I would. My youngest ran with me while the older two ran with their dad. It was a surreal … More lessons learned
One year ago tomorrow I ran my first marathon. I remember standing at the starting line, excited, scared, determined. Tomorrow I’ll be back at the same starting line, in my town, in front of my daughter’s high school. This time I’ll be running the half marathon as a training run for the NYC marathon in … More Circling Back
My dad once said to me, “You can do and be anything you want to be Toots. You just have to 1. Believe in yourself and 2. Know I’m always here for you.” I think this as I load up the car for our trip to Virginia Beach. The kids and I will be driving … More Finishing a race unfinished…this one is for you Pa
Broken Wings Fly Again 