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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Dropping the F-bomb

Fundraising. Did you wince a little when you read the word? Did your eye begin to twitch? Whether it is asking or being asked to make a donation, fundraising is the F-bomb that some people will argue can make a conversation just as uncomfortable as that “other” F-bomb.

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This good-for-something winter

I have never liked winter. I spend December through March counting the days until temperatures should consistently start with at least a 5, and are not just 5 degrees. Training for the Boston Marathon is really just a way to countdown to better weather and keep me from hibernating until spring. But this winter. Ugh. […]

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