Oh hey, 2025. Happy New Year, friends. Or not so happy. I posted this on Instagram the other day. Not what I wanted to post at the beginning of 2025. Uff. This year is off to a rocky start. We are just about half way through January, and I’d like...
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I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. This week’s stats: Running: 8.1 miWalking: 1.2 miCycling: 70.1 miStrength: 15 minYoga/Pilates/Barre: 70 minWarm up + Stretching: 50 minMeditation: 10 min As I mentioned last Sunday, I participated in the SUMMIIT Climb Event this week, a virtual...
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February 5, 2024 Precipitation in inches across California. Screenshot courtesy of The Weather Channel App. It’s funny, Kyria – who lives relatively close to me, but much closer to the coast – also wrote about the weather yesterday. I had mentioned in an earlier post that I thought our January...
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This year, we traveled over the holidays again for the first time in years. I took the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s off and we flew down to Southern California to spend the holidays with my mother-in-law. We arrived on Friday evening, she had dinner ready (a delicious...
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On Sunday, I ran the 19th annual Urban Cow Half Marathon. If I am honest: I am still riding this post-race high. I can’t believe how perfect this race went for me. I hadn’t been able to participate in a few years (because of travel and COVID), but it’s a...
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photo credit: Sincerely Media via Unsplash We’re rapidly approaching the two-year mark of the start of the pandemic (I measure it by the day we went into lockdown mode in California on March, 17) and it feels strange to think about it. Has it really been TWO YEARS since normalcy...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2021 photo credit: @foxxmad via Unsplash. It’s been a while since I checked in here regarding the pandemic. I mean, what is there to say? Nobody wants to talk about Covid anymore, but we also cannot NOT...
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I just talked about my 20th California-versary a couple of weeks ago, and today I have to share another special day: the anniversary of the day when I met Jon. We met right around three weeks after I arrived in the US. It would be a while until we became a...
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photo credit: Alin Luna via Unsplash The CDC announced in May that fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks in most indoor settings. California is officially ending the Stay at Home Order and fully reopening the economy today – no more physical distancing, no more capacity limits on...
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Friends, I am F U L L Y V A C C I N A T E D. Well, technically I will be fully vaccinated in two weeks, but you know what I mean. I got my second Pfizer shot on Wednesday and I couldn’t have been more excited about it....
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