I should have started writing about our adventures on this mystical, wondrous island days ago, because I’m not sure how my recall is going to be…but I want to remember every memorable moment of this utopian week, so here goes…something. Sunday, August 28- DAY 1 Matt had been in Maui for a week helping the …
I just read over what I wrote weeks before Olympic Trials. It seems like my heart was unknowingly preparing me for the chance that Matt might not make the Olympic Team. But my heart still has pangs of hurt for my man, who finished third in the event he became Olympic champion in four years …
Well, I cannot really think of another time I’ve had such spikes of adrenaline, joy, nerves– I’m in a glass box of emotion! I submitted an order for “Team Grevers” shirts for the fan club to wear at Trials (or wherever in the world family may be!). Our friend at Starbuck Design came up with …
Oh! I can post this now….I wrote it back in March, when I was wallowing in self pity and really wanting more pity from external sources. Yay pregnancy! So…it’s been four weeks since I found out I was pregnant. And I still can’t tell anyone! Well, that’s a bit of a lie. We’ve told our …
Suffering and pain are among the greatest mysteries in life. Many I know to be wonderful people experience more than a fair share of hurt and struggle. The old conundrum— why must bad things happen to good people? I thought about it as I read of horrendous injustices in various parts of the world. What …
This has nothing to do with the content…but it is the pretty place I get to coach ayerday! I’m continually walking a line between insecurity and confidence. Every time I fall across a great book or article in the newspaper, or scroll through an inspiring read online, my mind goes to one of two places. …
I’m a non-fiction person. Which leads me to believe I like evidence. I like the tangible. I scoff at fantasy and sci-fi, especially on TV, because sometimes it stretches my realist imagination too far. I’ve never been into vampires, werewolves, monsters in the closet, hauntings, the supernatural, because my logic keeps my mind from believing …
Do you ever have noise in your head? Not words or even murmurs, just static instead. A grainy, migrainey tight-templed feeling, that leaves me wanting to do, but only reeling. The sound is loud and my anxiety is taut Like there’s no room for real thought inspiration-seeking creates the noise a punishment for vain, forced …
I like to review books before I’m finished reading them…or so my conversations tell me. I began reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic this weekend and it’s become the epicenter every discussions of mine in the last 24 hours. So to dodge the possibility of me ranting about her book for a prolonged period of time, …
I’m thankful. Yes, so thankful, but ever thankful enough? Probably not. I read (or attempted to read) a book by Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. The book goes kind of like the title, a little to flowery and verbose for my liking. But on Amazon, Voskamp’s book …