Semper In Medias Res

 Dear Friends, If there was one blessing throughout this global pandemic of COVID-19, racism, cissexism, sexism...hell all the -isms, it is the fact that I could go out my front door and run.  I started running in my mid-twenties. As a child, as a teen, as a young adult, I was not athletic. I danced for a hot minute. I didn't participate in sports and I was terrible in gym classes. Despite all of that, I caught the running bug after watching a great friend crossed the finish line in her first half marathon.  I thought, "You know what, I think I can do that. I want to do that." I started slow with trying to run for 5 minutes straight. Then 10 minutes. Fun fact, I thought running was sprinting. So every time I had to run at school, I went full tilt and tired out after 2 minutes. Once I learned to slow myself down, I switched from running based on time to running based on distance. Fast forward past a handful of 5K's, a couple 10K's, and one half marathon, I'm st...

Today is Caesar's birthday. He is 7 years old. He still as playful and friendly as the first day we met him. Now, intersperse with the playfulness are more grumbles, whines, barks, and side-eye rolled.  He is my Grumpy McGrumperton. He is my walking partner.  He gets me out the door when sometimes, like today, I just want to sit and be lazy. Overall, he's a good puppy.  Happy Birthday Caesar!

 Dear Friends, Remember blogging? When you would just type out your thoughts on a web page and your friends would read it? Before vlogging? Before TL;DR posts on Facebook? Before being Insta-famous? In my 39 years, I have had 3 blogs. First was Livejournal. Is that still around!? Quick Google search tells me yes.  I actually liked that format. Just my words on the screen. No need to find the right image to tell the story. Sometimes, when there is nothing to write, just a good old fashion survey. 10 or 20 superficial questions about you that makes you smile and may make your friends smile.  Then there was "Healthy Obsessions of a Girlie Tomboy on this platform. This is when I jumped on the blog about learning healthy eating habits and my new obsession with running. I also was documenting my journey into fashion . .HA! That blog ended in 2012 because I felt like an imposter in the world of health/running/beauty. I also wanted to focus on the third a final blog... "The Adven...