Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

I should be showering.  I should be packing.  I should be soaking my blistered, bruised feet (10 mile run prepping for half-marathon next weekend + ten hours in bridesmaid heels…

Thoughts and Musings

Pre-eclampsia I sat with clasped hands in the passenger seat, watching but not seeing the buzz-cut hills along Interstate 279 slip off of the front windshield.  My legs were shaking…

Thoughts and Musings

On Sunday, August 29, 2010 Outside my window…Oleander blossoms, prickly pear fruit clusters, palm trees shedding skin and branches into the street, clouds mustering forces into thunderhead battalions, a punishing…

Thoughts and Musings

“Yinz goin’ Dahn-tahn, n’at?”  Sounds like a foreign language, but it’s not.  It’s Pittsburgh.  Home of the Steeler Nation, more mullets per capita than any city, and an astounding array…

Thoughts and Musings

Now here’s a problem I want in my life:  Four pints of raspberries.  Warm to the touch from the sun they drank through the spiky umbilical cords of their mother…

Thoughts and Musings

It’s hard, real hard, to get “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” unstuck from my brain.  That stupid little sing-song phrase ranks right up…

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