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Career Death: A Love Story

I recently left the legal profession.  Note: I was not removed from the legal profession. Point of clarification there, people.  #notdisbarred I remain (and plan to remain) a licensed attorney.  You know, just so I can whip out a demand letter at a moment’s notice, remind people that truth is an absolute defense to defamation (cuz that is necessary all the

Moving Towards a Mess

Someone once looked at my life, my habits and my food—and their reaction was:  I don’t think I can help you. I hadn’t thought about that statement at the time, really. Because for so long, I sort of felt like I was unreachable, unworthy, un-help-able… I sort of glossed over the idea that someone else agreed with me. But the more I

It’s Good to Be a Bear

So I wrote an article a while back in Triathlete about when to know if you should say “no” to that race on the calendar.  Decisions, decisions. As I was thinking about Chattanooga 70.3 (coming up in three weeks), I began to wonder what in the world I was doing with planning to race that. After St. Anthony’s last weekend,

Get Rid of that Mean Guy or Girl! Final Days to Register!

We train our bodies.  We train our nutrition.  But what about our BIGGEST asset –in LIFE—not just triathlon?  That asset is our mind, and our thoughts. From someone (me) who has attained some really HUGE goals (goals that would arguably seem unobtainable by looking at me), I can attest to the importance of mental toughness, relentlessness and fortitude. I may not always

EVERYTHING New on Race Day – St. Anthony’s Triathlon Race Report 2017

A friend of a friend asked me a few months ago, “Do you have any interest in racing St. Anthony’s Triathlon?” It was late February, I think, and I really did not have any interest in driving to Florida, doing an Olympic, in the heat, especially before Chattanooga 70.3. BUT. I started thinking. I loved that race. It was my first “real”

I Live Here. This is MY Home.

I went to an amazing talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert last night. You all may know her from the book, Eat Pray Love  (or the MOVIE with Julia Roberts by the same name—where she leaves her life to find herself in Rome, Bali and India [I think those are the countries]).  She sold 10 million copies of that book, by the way. Anyway, I enjoy

Kyle & Brent Pease: Together We Wheel

On Episode 4 of the Same 24 Hours Podcast, I interviewed two brothers who I just love, admire and think are two peeps YOU all should most definitely get to know, too. If you think you can’t do something, then think again. Kyle and Brent Pease are the ultimate “no excuses” brothers. Kyle was born with cerebral palsy with spastic quadriplegia, but

The One Thing Today

If we feel healthy, we act healthy. If we feel well, we are kinder to others, we have more to give. It builds on itself.  Happiness and health breeds MORE happiness and health. “BUT HOW DO WE GET THERE!? TODAY, I FEEL TERRIBLE!!!” When we FEEL terrible, other things also FEEL terrible. When things FEEL terrible, things BECOME terrible. Then

The Bully in Our Brain

We train our bodies.  We train our nutrition.  But what about our BIGGEST asset –in LIFE—not just triathlon?  That asset is our mind, and our thoughts. From someone (me) who has attained some really HUGE goals (goals that would arguably seem unobtainable by looking at me), I can attest to the importance of mental toughness, relentlessness and fortitude. I may not always

The Life is Hard Checklist

People often don’t talk about what it is actually like to do the hard things in life.  The hard things in life, we just do and we don’t really talk about them. My daughter came home today and lost her mind over the fact that we wouldn’t be attending “spirit night” at Mellow Mushroom, a local pizza place. First off, we