There is a race that’s one part epic, one part myth and one part absurdity and that’s why I love it and everything connected to it. Most especially, the race director is impossibly a chain smoker, running legend and what I can only imagine is a brilliant mind all rolled into one. His name is…
Author: G (of Lowi & G)
Inspiration Tuesday: Break the Loop
I was watching a television show over the weekend and one of the main characters was experiencing deja vu. She quickly caught on to what was happening and was trying desperately to make sense of it all. People from her past, who are dead, were in this experience and reminding her of things to help…
Thankful Thursday: Be Encouraging
When you find yourself in one of those mud puddles of life things can get weird. You may discover that, not unlike Meredith Grey, you too, can be “dark and twisty.” It’s OK don’t feel bad, there are plenty of DTPs of the world. You know, Dark and Twisty People. I have come across a…
Life Lesson: Know Your Yiddish
This 23 and ME DNA adventure continues to provide our family with great entertainment. We’ve had the possibility of a long-lost family member, random connection invites (possibly not so random, they are fellow DNA pool swimmers) and the ongoing question of whether we are Irish, German or something else. Drum roll, please! I am my…
Inspiration: Cultivating the Goodness
We have shared, at length, about our love of happiness jars. We’ve done 100 days of happiness on the blog more than once and every week we talk about something that brings us gratitude. Just last night I was blathering on to some friends of mine about focusing on the good stuff. I was proselytizing,…
Life Lesson: Stop Thinking So Much
“The real power is in NOT thinking…” Excuse me, what? Recently, while reading Pam Grout’s book “Thank and Grow Rich” I stumbled onto those words early on. It stopped me cold. I previously mentioned my issue with thinking or more aptly over-thinking. I think hard — very hard. ALL THE TIME. And when moments of…