The Tao of Me

Wow. My last post was 14 days ago. That’s a long time. Two Sundays ago I set out to run 16-miles. My left leg was feeling much better and I was looking forward to seeing how it held up. It didn’t fail me and I was able to finish the run feeling pretty good at [...]

My alarm went off at 5:03 am, way too soon. I pressed snooze twice before dragging myself out of bed at 5:21 am. I groggily made myself a bowl of cereal and ate it with an empty stare nowhere. Usually, once I’m up, I’m up and moving. But this time I just felt like everything [...]

As if Monday’s aren’t hard enough, this morning I was at the gym for a 5:30 am Spin class. Thankfully, the instructor had some good music to wake us up. I swear, with good music, I can push myself through anything. And its a good thing too because this was a “harder than usual” Spin [...]

Once again its Sunday night and I have no idea where the weekend went. Compared to Tahoe trip last weekend, this one stayed pretty low-key. It was a big sports weekend, with the Giants taking 3 of 4 from the Padres and tie-ing them for first place in the division, plus the start of the [...]

Three years ago this week, I was in Europe, visiting Lon-don, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Munich and Dusseldorf. That trip was the reason why I started my blog. While not as far as Europe, this year’s Labor Day trip was to a place just as beautiful — Tahoe! I hadn’t been to Tahoe in about 8 [...]