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…

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…

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….

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…