My selection process for food at the grocery store is loosely based on my desire for a challenge so I pick out, what I would consider, interesting food. Really I pick out food that I wish I cooked, which means I should have more than pretzels, cheese, and apples in my cart. Tonight was a
It’s 11 a.m. and I haven’t done much besides check the weather, which was a redundant thing to do since I could already hear the thunder and see the rain. The report coming from the automated computer voice with a slight English accent was quite simply, “rain today.” Good to know. Now off to my
The past few weeks, I’ve been on the front lines in meetings and I think I might have come close to death more than once. Have you read the book, Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni? It’s about how to have, hold, and lead effective meetings (as you could probably infer from the title). Never
Step 1: Do something.On Sunday, I did. I finished goal #1 on my list of goals: complete a half marathon. Check.Sometimes we need something to keep our mind off of other things. For me, work can be consuming (sometimes)…(actually lots of times). So in an act of emotional health desperation, I wrote down my goals
If I believed in luck, maybe it would have been on my side and I would have missed the whole series of events that were about to unfold… or rather not unfold. I watched a woman reach into a public trash can in Chicago and pull out a mangled Dunkin’ Doughnut wrapper. She looked inside.
I can’t believe I’m going to do this but here it goes- a quote from the movie Ice Age: Manfred: Sid, the tiger found a shortcutSid: (looking at the treacherous mountain) No thanks, I choose life. There it’s done. I actually quoted Ice Age. Please hold all judgements until forever. This quote plays in my
Remember in school when you were assigned a paper to write about your hero or role model? Lot’s of people picked Michael Jordan or their older sibling. I never knew who to pick. But now I do. Even when I was as a wannabe-rebel-making-mistakes-attitude-absorbed-teenager and sure that he was wrong about most things, my dad
When I fell I told myself: don’t write about this…. don’t write about this…. don’t write about this… I’m writing about this. Saturday morning was cool and for the first time in a month, I was looking forward to the long run in my prep for the Chicago 1/2 marathon. All I had to do
I was 22 when I married Brandon. I was glad I was 22 because 21 sounded so young. At 22 the world started giving me more respect, which is why I’m desperately awaiting 30. I think 30 will be the best year of my life because people will stop considering me young and unable to
My grandparents are (part) Macedonian so I grew up calling them Baba (Grandma) and Dedo (Grandpa). Sundays were big family dinners where the entire family gathered, ate, and drank. Holidays- especially Christmas- were always full of loud family and lots of presents (which sometimes came from my neon pink lipstick wearing, white hair teasing, always