There is a saying that the best apology is changed behavior. I think there is likely quite a bit of truth in there, while a genuine apology is also pretty darn good, too. One of my personal commitments is to be a lifelong learner. I think I always imagined that I was but in recent…

“If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together” ~ a proverb A couple of weeks ago, the Ohio version of the Backyard Ultra crowned its winner. For those of you who aren’t weird running types like me and my husband, I will give it to you as…

You know how we love a good challenge and I have been listening to Jen Hatmaker’s rumblings of updating her original book that was called 7. It was about eliminating excess in 7 areas of their lives.  In her updated version, Simple and Free, she apparently revisits all of these concepts to see what has…

I have been thinking a lot about sustainability, in terms of health and lifestyle lately. I have been doing the Faster Way to Fat Loss Program for about 6 months now.  I began this program for two reasons. One, to support my middle daughter who had just become a certified coach and two, to hopefully lose…

Learning new things as an adult is only difficult because our ego is fragile. We’ve lost the mental fortitude to really suck at something. When you’re a kid and you fall off your bike 127 times before you get the hang of it, do you ever remember thinking, maybe this bike-riding thing isn’t for me? …