1. Because I haven’t mentioned it in a while and wanted to make sure you don’t forget, I love my Chemex coffeemaker. After a week of travel earlier this month and acceptable, but mediocre hotel coffee for five days, I was so glad to get home to my Chemex. 2. I don’t eat a…
SAVORING | the first cup of coffee in the morning. FEELING | frustrated with some communications at work. Why can’t some people just be clear in their writing and straight-forward in their message, for the love of all Germans? Are you the native speaker, or am I? WEARING | my dusky pink corduroy pants. They…
To be quite honest, I am not prepared for cold weather running. Like, at all. Cold weather here in California is still well above 32°F and so snow is not a concern and even my layering is pretty minimal. The only thing I’d have to be concerned about is rain, and I guess I should…
Around the Interwebs 5 Online-Shopping Browser Extensions That Effortlessly Save Me Money. Everything is not going to be okay. Everyone’s running – and that could be dangerous for the Democrats. How do you feel about this big field of contenders? I totally love this approach. Treat failure like a scientist. Why you should work less…
I apologize, I skipped the spending report for the last quarter of 2018, but since we’re already well into the first quarter of 2019, I decided to just do my annual spending report and call it a day. I hope that’s ok with you guys. Some of my friends, who have done spending reports in…
This week is Valentine’s Day, so it’s an appropriate time to talk about the things we love about running! As most of you know, my blog is not exclusively a running blog, but running-related posts have been sneaking in more and more over the last few years. It’s just become a huge part of my…
Photo by @missnjc on Unsplash I know, I am late with this. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I’ve picked a guiding word for the year for a few years now, but sometimes the word comes easier than other times. (Here are the words I picked in 2015, 2016,…
I started off my reading with two fiction and two non-fiction books this year. Every Note Played by Lisa Genova (★★★★★) This is a story about a pianist with ALS and the havoc the disease causes for his entire family. His ex-wife, a pianist herself, steps up as his caretaker. The story beautifully written, detail-oriented…
I am trying a new blog feature this year which was inspired by the monthly recap posts that my blog friend Stephany was sharing last year. I liked the idea of a monthly recap so much that I decided pick up the idea for my blog. I’ve tweaked the format a little bit, but I am excited for these…
