Happy Earth Day! Can you believe this is 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! This movement began in 1970, with over 20 million Americans lending a hand to help make positive changes to environmental policies and protections. Go For A "Plog" Plogging is the act of picking up litter while ...
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week 13 (20): cancel culture
Cancel culture is really the only way I can think of to define what is happening in our world right now. Pretty much everything is cancelled. That which isn't cancelled is limited to essential operations, which translates to "no fun." I'm not complaining: it's just an observation, and I am very ...
week 7 (20): coping with the vacation hangover
Ugh, the vacation hangover. That awful feeling when you return to the real world from vacation and nothing is ever quite the same. I grappled with this condition all week, and only the current three-day weekend seems to be helping. Sunday - Animal Kingdom With the conference over, we ...
running fomo: a runfession/coffee date mashup
My running FOMO is real and here to stay and I am so happy to have both the Runfessions and Ultimate Coffee Date linkups to bare my "sole." Are you ready? Let's chat. Over coffee, I would runfess.... That after the last few days, running feels closer. Not close, mind you, but closer. ...
week 2(20): one month post-op
The start of the week marked one month post-op for me, and I admit that a bit of doubt has started creeping in. Mr. PugRunner keeps saying I am in "the first quarter" of all this, but at this stage of the game, I really hoped to feel more like myself. Instead, I still struggle with exhaustion, ...
week #52: the last week of 2019
Here we are: the last week of 2019. I'll be honest, I won't be sorry to see it go. These last two months have been sad and hard and not anything like what I thought it would be. I hate not being my normal, cheerleader self, but I'm feeling lonely and isolated and that's when the negative thoughts ...