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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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….
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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…
