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Wednesday February 8th 2012

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Lost: Mo, size large.

Lost: Mo, size large.

Sigh. I do hate losing my mo. One of my favorite lines to trot out about having chosen writing as a career is that you can find inspiration in whatever you do or say. You wake up every day knowing that something is going to strike you as worthy. Everyone has something to [Read More]

Eyeballs in my martini and the woes of a broken camera

Eyeballs in my martini and the woes of a broken camera

My, oh my, oh my. How time does fly. We’ve done a lot in just a short week. I’ve mentioned our friends Colin, Carli, and Lily before. We went on that incredible Fat Tire Narnia trip with them? Right, anyway, Halloween kicked off a week early for us, as we met [Read More]

Things I Acquired This Weekend

Things I Acquired This Weekend

BICYCLE! Head and chest cold Bruises Questionable photographs New vernacular HOW does one acquire so many fabulous, varied, tangible and intangible things in the space of one weekend, you ask? The answer is simple: FAT TIRE NARNIA. What *is* Fat Tire Narnia? Well. [Read More]

They do things that they’d never do on Broadway…

They do things that they’d never do on Broadway…

I am fighting some kind of wacked-out head and chest cold. It is making my thought process fuzzy, but perhaps that’s more the incredibly long weekend I had. It started on a Wednesday, you see, with some visits with old friends from college and one much more recently [Read More]

Day of Birth, Girls’ Night Out, and the Weekend of Bad Photos and Gorgeous Houses

Day of Birth, Girls’ Night Out, and the Weekend of Bad Photos and Gorgeous Houses

Oh my, oh my. What a week. I turned 35 last Tuesday and did it in the company of some good friends, some I hadn’t seen in a year or so. It was a terrific evening: Jody and I saw a movie that a friend produced, and then hopped into a taxi cab to meet [Read More]

Labor Day shenanigans

Labor Day shenanigans

The perils of coming home from a long trip abroad on the eve of a long weekend are such: wasted hours sleeping; hours spent half-awake; susceptibility and a remarkable weakness toward the suggestion to drink. Witness last night’s labor-day BBQ at Stuart and [Read More]

Irvine Hills hillbilly

Irvine Hills hillbilly

…No, not really. My little cousin Adrianna is here this week. It’s her first time in New York. I do love showing folks around this place. Her first full day here, we went down into the city at a reasonably late hour and met Larry for lunch. His office is in one [Read More]

iron stuff in my grey matter

iron stuff in my grey matter

For the longest time I thought I’d feel good about completing Ironman, and not in the traditional manner of having done something big and unprecedented for myself. More, I thought I’d be relieved to have Ironman training go away completely, have it be not a part of my [Read More]

Iron Girl, Iron Guy, and the Iron Maiden, Part I (pre-race days)

Iron Girl, Iron Guy, and the Iron Maiden, Part I (pre-race days)

…Me, Jim, and Lara, respectively, that is. It’s over. Almost exactly 24 hours ago to the minute, I crossed the finish line at Ironman Switzerland 2009, and I must confess to harboring all sorts of unresolved emotions about the thing. I am proud of my friends and [Read More]

A triathlon primer

A triathlon primer

I’ve been involved in multi-sport since 2001, and started doing triathlons back in 2003 as part of a project to get more urban women involved in outdoor sport (“Yes! You *can* have a two-martini dinner and still go for a five-mile run when you get home!”) [Read More]

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7×7=one grateful blogger

7×7=one grateful blogger

Awhile ago, my Whidbey colleague Charlotte Morganti nominated me for a 7×7 link award! I wish I knew what the [Read More]

Losing It

Things I have Lost in the past half-year: 1. A gold bracelet. Packed it away “for safekeeping” a decade [Read More]

Random gorgeousness

Random gorgeousness

So. Paula Stanton, who made my wedding dress, also made this recently. I saw it and wanted to Pinterest it, but [Read More]

The Bi-Ped speaks about the Quadruped

My latest essay, “Bi-Pedal to Quadrupedal Communications, Key of ‘B’,” appears in the latest [Read More]

Holy caca

I have an incredible backlog of posts to write, but I’m at SeaTac now, and my brain is still buzzing buzzing with [Read More]

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