Alabama 31-Colorado State 6 A couple of years ago, when I heard that Alabama would be playing Colorado State this year, I started furiously searching the car, couch, Frankie’s bathroom for pennies. I was going to be on a plane to Colorado for that game. Instead, I’m sitting at home, stretched out on the couch. …
Posts from: September 2013
We finally woke up to some rain. The long slow soaking rain that we have needed for 3 weeks. Cooler temperatures Changing colors Vibrant glowing colors After some time outside literally playing in the rain, I wasn’t ready to come in. I woke up feeling terrible and running a fever, but …
This is a short and sweet Favorites. I can’t list all the things I love about fall in just one post. I picked my first 3 that I can enjoy even when summer is still hanging around. 1. Sunsets It doesn’t get “fall” weather until late Oct/November. I have to get my kicks in when …
Every now and then, conversations between Stephen and myself border on the insane. Take this one last week. Me: I subscribed to the newspaper. Stephen: Why in the world did you do that? Me: umm…because I like reading about local stuff. Stephen: We have lived here 8 years and you have never once talked about …
Originally published on US News Eat+Run A few years ago, I was counting my running success in increments of tenths of a mile. I wasn’t a beginning runner. Worse, I was an injured runner. I had run several races, trail races, and a half-marathon trail race before I found myself hobbling to a doctor …
Want to hear something really crazy? I now have a regular publishing opportunity. US News & World Report has an online Health page and one feature of that page is their Eat+Run Blog. A few weeks ago, through Fitfluential, I was offered a contributing publisher opportunity. We set up a schedule and a list of …
Alabama 49-Texas A&M 42 It was a fantastic game. Now that it is over and I’m completely exhausted from cheering, hand-wringing, verbally abusing a ref with an itchy hand holding a yellow flag, and eating a lot of really good nachos, I can say it was a fantastic game. I get the Wife-of-the-Year award …
I woke up agitated and excited about the upcoming game. Because it was a GORGOUS day, I went to the Tuscaloosa River Market. After loading up my car with food, I had to find a Starbucks because I’m one of those people who love them and enjoy them while I can. The rest of the …
I know it’s been forever since I’ve posted. School is sucking me dry and my second-week-of-September sinus infection arrived a week early. Now it’s good old fashioned bronchitis just to make things more interesting. But I did something today that I want to share with the world. It’s not new or revolutionary. I’m sure there …
I really hate being sick when I need to be 100% in the moment. Like when I teach young impressionable children. See, when my head feels like thousands of jungle monkeys with tiny shivs are attacking my skull, I have a hard time focusing on why Old McDonald Had a Fart. Never mind that I …
I have survived the first 2 weeks of teaching a new curriculum, new kids, new standards, new expectations, and writing a bunch of dumb stuff on a whiteboard for the kids who can’t read or speak English yet. It’s been a ROUGH two weeks. This has been just as hard or harder than last year …