Today, I rode my bike 11 miles after riding only 5 miles total in more than a year. My normal mode would have been to over think things, and I wouldn’t have ridden at all. You know…what if the group is faster than I am (they were). I don’t really have the right bike (I [...]
Archive for August, 2009
New Goal: Lighten Up
Posted in midlife, tagged "goal-setting", bike, fun, goal, midlife, running, scripts, writing on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Losing A Yard, Gaining A Plot
Posted in Health, Life, Midwest, Transitions, midlife, tagged apartment, backyard, community, garden, marriage, midlife, Midwest, transition, yard on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In our marriage we’ve had at least seven different yards. Seemed like the thing to do when raising children. With every new move, we made room first for a swing set, then a trampoline, later we added a hot tub which we loved and we always had a firepit to roast marshmellows and unwind on [...]
How Much Can I Lose?
Posted in Health, Life, Transitions, midlife on August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“It’s not about stuff,” she said through tears. “He never talked about stuff in the end.”
I ran into an old friend at a conference last week . Sadly, she experienced the death of her husband since I’d moved away. Yet she is strong and is finding her way through a darkness nobody wants to navigate. [...]
Going Carless?
Posted in Life, Travel, midlife on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I visited a friend in Portland, Oregon, after a conference last week and was impressed that she and her husband have decided to go carless. They only have one car. She bikes a few miles to her work everyday and he works from home. She has found a local grocery store who delivers for $10…way [...]
Missing the backyard fire
Posted in midlife, tagged backyard, fire, outdoors, relaxing on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I was sitting with friends in Oregon around their backyard fire pit, relaxing in a comfortable patio chair with my bare feet soaking in the heat and my body relaxing into the warmth radiating from the circle. I love fires. I love watching the ever changing patterns of the flames and hearing the [...]
Better Than Vacation
Posted in Travel, tagged Caffe Driade, Chapel Hill, Crook's Corner, Friends, Margaret's Cantina, Vacation on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a friend visit me from Michigan not long ago. She said, “This place is like a vacation spot.” I thought maybe she was simply in vacation mode. But, this weekend I felt like that too, and I wasn’t on vacation. We ate at a restaurant we’d never tried before called Margaret’s Cantina which [...]
Jumping Back In
Posted in midlife, tagged Blogging, writing on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it so difficult to do even the things we really want to do? I want to write. I’ve been writing and/or talking about writing since I can remember. My undergraduate degree is in professional writing. I was excited when I started this blog that I was “getting back into writing.” Yet it’s been [...]
Want to know when I’ve posted another blog?
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
readingrisa on A Pearl in the Storm patsyporco on A Pearl in the Storm Swingset on Going Car Light readingrisa on Going Car Light Swingset on Going Car Light Archives
-
Blog Stats
- 925 hits
