Today is my birthday! I love celebrating my birthday and enjoying the day with family and friends. I even made cupcakes yesterday, but it was so I could eat the cake batter, not the cupcakes! There’s no calories in cake until it’s cooked, right?! I love getting cards, e-mails and reading Facebook posts. Every single [...]
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Birthdays – Celebrating Life
Posted in Birthdays, Friendship, Marathon Training, Push to Walk, tagged birthdays, marathon training, push to walk, running, spinal cord injuries on April 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Flooding and Friends
Posted in Friendship, Marathon Training, tagged friends, friendship, spinal cord injuries on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My real topic is about my friends today, but I couldn’t start writing without acknowledging all those affected by the terrible flooding in the last several days. Many friends, homes and businesses are dealing with astronomical problems as a result of the rains and floods, and I wish them all well. In addition to the [...]
Cancer’s Cruel Realities
Posted in Friendship, Marathon Training, tagged cancer, cancer treatments, exercise, family, family support, running, stem cell treatments on March 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today, my favorite running slogan wasn’t making much sense to me. “Running is not with the legs or the mind; it is with the heart.” Well, my heart was very heavy today. Last night I received word that a dear friend’s brother was lost to cancer at a young age, far too young to die. [...]
I’m Back!
Posted in Friendship, Marathon Training, Push to Walk, tagged hockey, marathon training, push to walk, race to walk, running, spinal cord injuries, workouts on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Between the snow storms and traveling for the weekend, I have been neglectful of my blog – sorry! But I’m back………. We were supposed to leave this past Thursday for North Carolina, but were sidelined by the storm that day. We went to the airport, but came back home after being notified we would have [...]
My Friend Betty
Posted in Friendship, Marathon Training, tagged marathon training, running, spinal cord injuries on January 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I met Betty in the Fall of 1977 moving into my dorm room at Kean College. Betty was carrying a wicker hamper and I was, well, limping along on crutches! It was, obviously, a memorable meeting that I can recall in great detail even though it was more than 30 years ago! (I wonder why [...]