First run of 2026 in the books. It may have been a slow walk/run interval, but I still lapped everyone on their couch today. footpathapp.com/tracks/36A21...

As a semi-regular runner for the past five years and a quasi-runner several years before that…I can say it really isn’t about the speed or distance or any other way of quantifying it. Instead, it is about being grateful to have the ability to run. Results of being grateful to be able to run today…

The December 2025 issue of Quill and Parchment has gone live and includes my poem, “Stepping Out.” I am beyond thrilled. quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec...

First run since Nov. 1st. Off to get my seasonal flu shot now…hoping to feel well enough by Wednesday or Thursday to get in a Turkey trot. footpathapp.com/tracks/B8F6C...

1 Mancos High School girl ran in the 2A cross country state championships today.Couldn’t be there to support, but I ran in solidarity. Roughly a four mile route, but I managed not to track the first mile or so and forgot to put on my Fitbit. Oh well. My body knows. footpathapp.com/tracks/E49C0...

Slugger’s version of having a happy Halloween.

footpathapp.com/tracks/FD110... It was a nice day for the inaugural Rebel Run 5K in the company of my husband and good friends. Shout out to @dirigojoe.bsky.social (the husband) for completing his first event 5K ever with flying colors.

Made my first run in a month and a half now that I’m hip bursitis pain free and acquired a new pair of ASICS after a Fleet Feet store fitting. It was slow, but not painful. And I felt the bounce in those shoes…something about CO2. Thinking that’ll be appreciated as a runner in my 40s.

He always wins…always. Love our Slugger pup whose been with us three years now and is celebrating a belated adoption day (aka birthday).

I was finishing a 5K today when I started thinking about that question every runner gets, but can’t adequately explain or answer: “Why do you run?” And I think I run in honor of every girl and woman who should’ve been able to run further, but was a victim too young, for those told “you can’t.”

I am unspeakably happy about this…https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RmkG6dxDatdj4KlLqBRAZ?si=k372-ZcKRRO6pIJhLVALvA

Tried my own version of a MURPH today at the gym. Managed a decent mile run, 25 assisted pull-ups, 50 modified push ups, and 75 squats. So tired after that I didn’t even attempt the finishing mile run. (My legs were shaky). Mad respect for everyone capable of doing a complete MURPH…

So as far I’m concerned, a Sunday run is just a good a way as any other to express gratitude for or worship what we all call life.

Got the PS5 to queue up one of the best DVDs of all time.

Excited to finally start reading @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social series of space-based murder thriller/mysteries starting with book one today.

Has anyone else ever wanted to say, “Hey FitBit, I’ll decide what kind of exercise I want to do and when…thank you very much.”

Your favorite idiom, phrase, mantra, or saying that rings true and stays with you…that, my friends, was probably written by a poet. #happynationalpoetrymonth