Taking Action

Today is Blog Action Day where bloggers around the world are encouraged to post about the environment — one of my favorite topics to discuss. There are many ways I’ve modified my behavior in the last few years to be more green — like bringing my own...

Bootstrap Kinda Week

Ever have one of those weeks where you know you just have to dig in, shut up and get to work? Last week of tri training and I’m getting tired and honestly, a little bored. Work stress has my skin looking like I’m in high school, and this morning I found...

Reunion Remix

The reunion was fun and strange. What an odd mix of emotions I wasn’t expecting! Needless to say, the new shoes made it worth attending. Running this morning felt entirely different too. I didn’t have that little superficial voice in the back of my head...

Giddyup in Your Skinny Pants

You know that pair of pants that haven’t fit for a while, but you can’t bring yourself to throw them away? They are your skinny pants, the ones you’ve been thinking about getting back into, and on some over-confident days, you pull them out of the...

Quality, Not Quantity

When I got my first job out of college, I went a little haywire with shopping. I had more clothes, shoes and bags than I knew what to do with. I did not, at that time, have a mortgage, so financially my mall habits weren’t that big of a deal. Emotionally,...

Super Silly

I attended a super heroes themed birthday party this weekend and yee-ow, was it fun. I was rather impressed by the costumes. The idea was to create your own super hero and super power. Political correctness was not a requirement. El Camino, super power: landscaping....