Monthly Archives: November 2009

Truly Thankful.

I’m thankful for at least one more holiday…one more Thanksgiving…one more Christmas…one more season wrapped in the warmth of my family. I am thankful for time, however short it may be.
My grandma is dying of liver cancer.
Dying.
And until recently, I have resisted the reality of it with every part of my being. The thought of [...]

The shoe still fits.

I ran today.
It’s been almost three months, but I managed to not sleep through the alarm, fit my much-larger-than-three-months-ago ass into my running tights, and breathe heavily and laboriously through 30 straight minutes. I would mark this one in the huge accomplishment category, especially since I was thinking that my running shoes would be collecting [...]