More updates
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Health / Fitness, My Life | 2 Comments »Okay, I'm really sorry I haven't been blogging consistently. It's easy to say there's been a lot going on, but man, has there been a lot going on! I'm buying a condo! It's in a beautiful converted house that looks ...
Losing Weight, Gaining Life!
Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Books, Health / Fitness, My Life | 6 Comments »Last night I ran into a friend whom I hadn't seen since December. She was shocked at how different I looked. Since January 18, I've been following a program called The Alternate-Day Diet. I started at 225 lbs. (102 ...
Watching Life
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Spirituality | 5 Comments »Once I watched an exciting past episode of Lost with a friend who also enjoys it, but who couldn’t stop thinking about it as he watched it. An action scene begins, and he shouts, “No way! The water wouldn’t have ...
Marathon (and other) updates
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Health / Fitness, Language, My Life | 4 Comments »I won't be running in the Shamrock Marathon this month. I had some substantial problems with my left Achilles' tendon, and after some rest, a lot of physical therapy, a couple of shoe changes, and wearing an ankle brace, ...
Marathon(s) update
Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in Health / Fitness, My Life | 3 Comments »Well, the writing marathon, NaNoWriMo, is finally over. I and my friends Zach and Margreet all won, which is to say, we completed the challenge of writing a 50,000-word rough draft of a novel. Now, some friends have enquired about when ...
My Other Marathon
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Books, My Life | 5 Comments »Besides the marathon I'll be running in March 21, I've signed up for another one of sorts as well. This one starts in just three-and-a-half hours. It's called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. I'm not ...
In Training
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 Posted in Books, Health / Fitness, My Life | 4 Comments »I’m in training. For a marathon! Yeah, you read that right, and it still sounds as unbelievable to me as it does to anyone reading this who knows me. Sure, I wrote earlier about starting a running program; I began ...
A few updates
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in My Life | 3 Comments »Sorry for my long absence. Really, I am. A lot has been going on: I lost Talbot in late April. He was hit by a car, and I felt so bad about his death, that I really couldn't write about it ...
Re-Centering
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in Health / Fitness, My Life | 5 Comments »A good friend of mine told me that my mother's death would change me. He was right. I've found that I'm re-prioritizing things in my life. I'm wanting to integrate into my life more of the things that I've neglected ...
Her Passing
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Love, My Life | 10 Comments »My mom passed away Sunday evening. She had been hanging on, despite the fact that all of us had individually encouraged her to let go. However, when all three of us--my brother, father and myself--did so together, and assured her ...
