infinitely sustainable pace

For Mother’s Day this year my kiddo came down sick with a raging fever and general ugh. So I treated myself to some gas for the lawn mower and a few loads of laundry. And because that’s the kind of mom I am, I also splurged on the fixings for chicken soup. Luckily he managed to not [...]

The only thing going on for me right now is working and packing and the business of being a parent. When I can steal an hour during the day I sneak out for a quick ride. It’s always too short, if only I could ride for another hour and then another hour after that. One thing [...]

I think it was last week that I was rambling on about needing to try to make my life work, just as it is. As the saying goes, if it’s important to you you’ll find a way. If not you’ll find an excuse. With spring really happening, all I want to do is ride my [...]

Coach said to recover from SSAP by working alot. I’ve been jealously eyeing everyone with bikes riding the town loops across from my office while I work or run off to pick up the boy. But yesterday was too nice not to sneak in a ride, so I did.

So first, the non-important stuff. I told you that I hadn’t been riding my bike that much and wasn’t very fit, and I wasn’t bluffing. SSAP was a demonstration of my non-fitness. Anything that was flat or downhill was fair game, but once the trail pointed up I fell way behind. Sure is humbling to [...]

One day when Keiran was a little baby and I was just back at work, juggling a new job, an infant, and all of the parts of life, I came into work completely frazzled. Thinking that I’d get some sympathy, I expressed my frustration and how I didn’t feel like I had a handle on [...]

Even with the first race of the season looming less than 3 weeks away, it’s not easy to get time to ride right now. Luckily K is a little older and a very confident and self assured kid, allowing me more flexibility than I probably deserve. Also, I will have to buy my neighbors a [...]

I’ve just finished reading Lean In. It exceeded my expectations, I wished it was longer. It made me frustrated and also gave me hope. I’d recommend this book. Why don’t we decide to look at the choices we make in our lives not as sources of anxiety, but as enormous opportunities for inspiration, both to and [...]

Got home from work last night and found this little fella waiting for me: Honestly, I’m a little impressed with myself for catching a weasel. The weasel was a little less impressed with the situation. K and I put the stinky, hissing critter in the car and took it for a little drive to a new [...]

or RIP chickens. Saturday morning I found one of my buff orphington chickens dead in the coop. neck broken and a little bloody but otherwise just dead and lying there. Odd. Then Saturday afternoon I found the other buff dead outside the coop. Sunday morning the little red chicken was dead in the coop, door [...]