My wish for myself, and for you
As my little ticker in the lower right corner shows, this week I surpassed 30 miles on the PJF Trail, and I kept right on going. At about four weeks in, I’ve done 37.4 miles so far. If you understand math, you can tell that I have a long way to walk before I hit…
So I went on a little nail polish shopping spree the other day. I got some unhappy work news, (It’s fine, everyone still has jobs and all, but I’m not going to have funding to keep visiting some of the child care programs I’ve been visiting.) and a co-worker and I felt we needed a pick-me-up after work. …
We’ve had a lovely fall weekend here in Missouri, so I decided to walk outside. Turns out, I’ve been leading a rather pampered existence indoors on my treadmill. Somehow walking outside around my neighborhood was twice as exhausting as inside on the treadmill! I think several factors come into play here. One, I generally walk indoors in…
Can I just tell you that this project is what I’m living for right now? It is. I cannot wait each night to crawl into bed and read my book. I think about it during the day. I’m almost at that halfway point where part of you is dying to read more and more and…
As you can see from the snazzy ticker I’ve installed in the blog’s lower right corner, I’m up to 13 miles completed! I have walked five of the last seven days. The work days I did less than 2 miles each evening. It wasn’t even too hard to make myself do it. I’m kind of…
Yesterday I was visiting a preschool program, and the kids were playing outside. They are generally a great group, and this day was no exception. Kids building with blocks (yes, outside!), kids playing on the monkey bars, kids drawing with sidewalk chalk. I chatted with the teachers a bit and modeled some problem solving between…