I feel like a weight has been lifted. I wish it was from my chest, but it's off my shoulders at least.  After 4 days of steroids, I...

Look closely... can you see the water droplets falling from the roof? Whenever the winter snow starts to melt, I think of Laura Ingal...

So... the Assessment Center called and said they were already closing for the day due to snow, and would be closed tomorrow as well. So I ne...

Just when I thought we were going to cruise through the rest of winter with 40 degrees and sunshine, a storm hit. Not a storm in the sense o...

We finally decorated for Christmas tonight! Pictures to come. The weather finally turned wintery this weekend-- not that I was upset about ...

I love Advent. It's a celebration of warmth and light in a season of cold and darkness. This Sunday marked the first Sunday of Advent ...

Yes, I ran a half marathon a week ago today. Yes, I'm still stiff and sore. And yes, I've gotten two runs and a yoga class in this w...

 It's currently 39 degrees out and there's a possibility of snow tonight. Winter weather has officially come to Kansas City. Inste...

(Or, why I'm not running the Cowtown Marathon in February). What running is: 1.) An antidepressant . 2.) An encouragement. ...

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch yo...

**Please excuse what I'm sure will be an excessively verbose post written in a haze of  post-run euphoria. Read at your own risk.** ...

After all that talk yesterday, I fell asleep on the couch instead of going out for a run beneath the brilliant blue fall sky. But I was so t...

Hey look... I'm famous ! Well, I guess that's a stretch since I'm hardly the only one they interviewed. But still. It's a fu...

This entire thought process occurred yesterday (Sunday) afternoon at work: After I got back from lunch, the charge nurse asked if I wanted...

Growing up, August always meant back-to-school shopping and browsing through catalogs at all the knit sweaters, plaid skirts, and warm tight...

Just waking up in the mornin' gotta thank God I don't know but today seems kinda odd No chirpin' from the locusts, no pain S...

I have an old co-worker who said commented on facebook about how she hates working all weekend and one of her friends responded, "poor ...

If you watch Oprah or Good Morning America, you may have already heard about Operation Beautiful this summer. I heard about it because the ...