The Tao of Me

Green Day, my most favorite band in the whole world, sings a song about the “Time of Your Life”, but it’s also called “Good Riddance.” That’s how I feel about 2010. So last night, during a terrible bout of insomnia, I reflected on 2010, and concluded that if I had to sum it up in [...]

Tonight I realized that it’s my second to the last night here in Vancouver. And it made me sad. It means that I’ll be leaving my best friend, Chip. Anyone who knows my family knows that Chip is pretty much the center of our world. Dinner conversations have been devoted entirely on him. He’s a [...]

To say it’s been an odd holiday season is an understatement. There have been a lot of weird emotions going on (refer back to yesterday’s post). During the last two times that I’ve run, I used the time to reflect upon the situation and how everyone reactions to these kinds of things differently. Like Cameron [...]

The Christmas traditions in our family are fairly simple: 1. We spent it every year in Vancouver, WA with my aunt’s family. 2. We have a Christmas Eve dinner. 3. That is followed by my Uncle’s annual Big Rich’s Invitational Ping Pong Tournament 4. We have Christmas Day breakfast at IHOP 5. Then come home [...]

Movement. The ability to walk freely; to run; to climb stairs. Even inalienable rights like simply going to the bathroom. These are all things that we take for granted. Or at least things that I sometimes take for granted. Not everyone has this privilege. I have loved ones, some of whom were some of the [...]

READ IT, DO IT, LOVE IT…. My friend De tagged me a few weeks ago, and only now am I getting around to writing my list. I know everyone thinks these lists are silly, but they kinda remind me of the slam books that we did in elementary school. And come on admit it, you [...]

Jess, one of my blogging friends, writes such heartfelt, introspective posts, and they are usually on things that I am mulling over at the same time (I swear we are telepathically connected). She recently told me to just throw whatever is going on in my head out there and don’t think about it. Just write. [...]

Just a few random thoughts on this Friday: 1. One last thing on the LA County Half-Marathon. This pretty much sums it up… …lots of walking. 2. After seeing this photo, taken on Black Friday, I decided that I hated my highlights… …last night I finally got rid of them and went to one color. [...]