The power of curiosity

February 20, 2026.Reading time 18 minutes.

I have a half-marathon in just over a week. And I’m in a strange, liminal space with it: I’m running to train for this race, sure. But mostly, I’m running to survive. To give myself some routine, some rhythm, some normalcy. A place to calm my body, mind, and spirit. A space to release my […]

One year without Clover

September 25, 2025.Reading time 9 minutes.

I need to write about Clover. But I don’t know where to start. Or maybe I just don’t want to. When I first shared that we had found a rabbit—spotted a beautiful white bunny in someone’s yard, munching on a patch of clover, while Shannon and I were out on a morning run; one who […]

On Revision

July 22, 2025.Reading time 10 minutes.

I didn’t really intend to take two years off from my novel. But I did. It began as a very intentional break. In August 2022 I shipped Draft 2 off to beta readers. I took a few months’ break at that point, even as I got some feedback. Then I started picking at it. And […]

2025 Goal: Fail. And keep going.

January 2, 2025.Reading time 21 minutes.

I’m starting to write this on December 18, wondering if it’s too early to do a “year in review” blog post. Well, I opened my folder of running blog drafts, and found a document called “2023 running recap blog.” It’s just a few paragraphs: unfinished, and never published. So hopefully I at least finish this […]

Everything is so different now

June 14, 2024.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve had a blog post swirling in my brain for a while now. Which may be overstating it: I’ve had various thoughts and ponderings about what I could blog about swirling in my head, but I haven’t been able to pin anything down. I update so rarely now, I feel like I have to have […]

Women Alone

March 8, 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

I’ve been waiting for it to hit me. The sadness. The grief. The despair. It’s there, I know it is, simmering under the surface. But it can’t get past the layer of white hot rage that’s been bubbling over me for the last several days. I’m so tired. We’re all so tired. Tired of thinking […]

The journey to AthHalf

November 22, 2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

“It’s not the destination; it’s the journey.” I’ve never been great at savoring the journey. I feel like a lot of runners struggle with this. We have a goal race, maybe a goal time; trying to set a PR, or qualify for something, or get on the podium. Achieve, achieve, achieve. But when we finish […]

One

August 24, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

I had a lot of expectations and hopes for parenthood. Like with most things, many of these were probably unreasonable, even under the best of circumstances: that I would keep running all through pregnancy; that this would make coming back to running postpartum much smoother; that I would come back stronger, tougher, faster, crushing PRs […]

Keep blooming

March 8, 2023.Reading time 17 minutes.

Pansies have been my favorite flower for the longest time. It’s their colors. It’s their sweet little thoughtful faces, their name derived from the French, pensée, “thought.” All the different varieties, from tiny violets to the rich, wide spread of purple or yellow or multicolored blooms. It never made sense to me that the word […]

Break’s (not) over

November 6, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

I’m not sure how to count this break any more, because last week (week six, I guess), I ran twice. Last Wednesday, I slipped out of bed to an early alarm while my husband took a rest day. It was warm and drizzly rain out, and he probably figured I was going to do a […]