March Fo(u)rth!

My cousin’s Jeanne’s favorite day of the year is March 4th. It’s not her birthday or anniversary, but just a play on words that can only be celebrated once a year (March 4th = March forth). Go ahead, try to find another date that it works with.

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How superheroes made me run faster

I was not looking forward to this week’s long run. I have been trying to get over a cold and while the major congestion has passed, I’m still sluggish and breathing hard gets me coughing. So running, especially anything a bit fast, leaves me feeling even worse.

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A Thank You Letter to Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature, Thank you for sparing Boston from the early morning snowstorm that hit the mid-Atlantic Saturday morning. The forecast at the beginning of the week brought back memories of that first big storm last January. My stomach dropped at the thought that like last year, we might not see dry pavement again until […]

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Back at it

My New Year’s resolution was to write more. It’s January 16th, and this is the first time I have sat down with my laptop, so that’s going really well. So I was surprised to find my motivation to finally get started was a soggy, cold long run.

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What I learned during my summer (without a) vacation

Ahhh, summer.It is hands down my favorite season. Flip flops, tank tops, early sunrises and late sunsets; I would take the occasional heat wave over a blizzard any day. As a child summer seemed like it lasted forever. Running around the neighborhood, making up games in the schoolyard, splashing in the neighbor’s pool until mom […]

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