The Tao of Me

We had our annual summer picnic at work today which included a little 5K race! A couple of weeks ago I’d gone out to run Shoreline to map out a 3.1 mile course and came up with this course, which perfectly looped our picnic site: Some photos I took from the mapping run: * View [...]

This is long overdue. Since I’m running the Portland Marathon this October, I decided to drive the course when I visited the area last month. I printed out the map posted on their Web site and ventured out with my aunt. She drove while I stuck my Flip Camera out the window and recorded. Seriously. [...]

I had such a great time on my vacation and I’m so sad that its over. While I usually take a summer and winter trip to see the Vancouver relatives, this time there was a specific purpose — to spend some time with my cousin Jenna. Jenna graduated from WSU in the Spring with a [...]

While waking up at 6:30 am is sleeping in for me, its not for everyone else. Chip and I were the only ones up (actually its 10:30 am and we’re still the only ones up….) so I decided to take him out for a walk. The mere mention of the work “walk” gets him all [...]

First let me start by saying Happy Thursday! Only 2 more days to the weekend! If you’ve read my blog from 2 Springs ago, you will know that I am a huge fan, HUGE fan of Sex and the City. When the SATC movie came out in May 2008, I was in heaven! My cousin [...]

Its no secret that 2 of my most favorite things are baseball and running… So last week, when I sat down to plan my Spring vacation, I found myself in a bit of dilemma between choosing to travel to New Orleans on Feb 28th for the Mardi Gras Rock n Roll Half Marathon or to [...]

1. I learned that I should not wear my Anti-Up shirt in Vegas…no wonder I got so many strange comments… 2. I learned that there’s Filipino fast food in Vegas. I can’t wait to bring my cousins here! 3. I learned that I have a serious addiction to crepes…had one at least every day in [...]

Tomorrow begins a much anticipated Giants vs Dodgers series in San Francisco. I always love these series, for obvious reasons, but this year, it actually has significance in the standings. It already August and the Giants are only 4 1/2 games behind the Dodgers in the division standings! Needless to say, this series is HUGE! [...]

its been almost a year and half since i visited paris – i miss it so much. these are video clips of some of the street performers i encountered while strolling the streets of paris. (i tried to upload using the blogger tool but i guess the files were too large so now i’m experimenting [...]