Okey-doke. So I had my annual allergy check-up last week and complained almost as an aside that the air quality this spring has been horrid—more horrider than usual, even. I told my doctor that for the first time in about a decade of running I’ve had to stop on occasion and prop myself against whatever [...]
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SELF-INDULGENT BALLET DRIVEL.
Dancers are obsessed with bodies, especially their own. And even though I have not been a dancer dancer for some time now, I still dance in front of my young students in their ballet classes (and wall-to-wall mirrors) five and sometimes six days a week; I am keenly aware [...]
Mile two with Teddy Blue:
Not bad for a cell phone camera (and a new, sexy, purple one at that).
Branded by A Little Tea or Something
I am a terrible patient and thus avoid doctor visits like plague. Plus. It is my firmly held belief that doctor appointments spawn more doctor appointments—and who has time for that? But I relented last week and saw an orthopedist after I took a spill on [...]
We are happily home again from another July 4th weekend at our cottage in Highlands, NC. And in case you didn’t know, Highlands is a hamlet in Western North Carolina’s Appalachians, in the Nantahala National Forest. Established in the late nineteenth century, its resident population is quite small—just around 250 families or so—but because [...]
It is unusual for a July morning in the South to feel this crisp and dry. At the top of mile 3:
Excuse the awful cell phone camera resolution. And this, perhaps the best-ever moving company slogan:
Whilst contemplating all panics since the Civil War, I was also pondering this question: Why do SAB-trained [...]