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Pre-Halloween 2021
I have always been a fan of Halloween for the simple fact I get to dress in costume. Part of it is getting to wear something fancy and or fun but the other part is expressing my creativity. I will use any excuse to make or buy a new costume. Last year derailed me in my pursuit of the perfect Halloween costume. As usually happens when Halloween does not fall on a work day, my enthusiasm waned. The Hallowed Half Marathon was deferred and my costume I spent the last year perfecting would not be needed. A handful of us met to run the race unofficially, I wanted to save…
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My Hair: The Early Years
The relationship I have had with my hair over the years could be described as on again off again. When I was born I had very little hair, my mother told me she used to tape bows on my head so people would stop asking about her cute little boy. My hair took its sweet time growing. By the time I entered kindergarten, I had enough hair that my mom thought it was time to continue the family tradition of my first home perm. This is a tradition that dies with me as I could not subject my girls to any of the trauma I endured. Meatball head became my…
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Children with Hair Loss Donation
As I started writing for this blog one page quickly became two and that really goes against my original plan to keep my posts short so they don’t take too much time to read. So this is part one of a multipart series. My last big hair cut was in 2008 when I donated to another charity that solicits hair donations for cancer patients. Since that donation, I found out the charity charges for the wigs that are given to children. One of my daughters found the charity Children with Hair Loss and they never charge for the wigs they give to children. Additionally, they accepted dyed hair. I…
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My First Triathlon
After waiting for over a year and a half from when I signed up, race weekend was finally here! Friday night was the athletes’ meeting and packet pickup. I left later than planned and just barely made it in time for the meeting. After the meeting, I picked up my race packet with my numbers and timing chip. I was happy the volunteers also added our required markings to our arms as I had no clue what I was doing. At this point with markered numbers on my arms, it started to feel real, I was really doing this. I caught up with some of my fellow running club…
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Triathlon Training
About 4 years ago I took my girls to the beach and as we arrived the TriWildwood Triathlon had ended and I saw all of these people with these fabulous medals. I did not know what was going on but I wanted one of those medals! I went home and googled the event and found it is billed as the best beginner friendly triathlon and it is right in my backyard! At the time I did not do any exercise regularly, if the mood struck I would do some sort of weight training or aerobics but I was far from consistent. About a year into running I thought about the…
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Blue & White- My Favorite Colors
How could something so innocent as your favorite color be marred by the trauma in your life? When I was younger I would have told you my favorite color was green. Secretly, I loved blue but that was a boy color and as a girl, I was to like pink. To me pink represented weakness, even at a young age I could see men who were demeaning to women, took advantage of them, or just lorded power over them. I did not want to be one of those women. I have always been a bit of a tomboy, looking back I wonder if it was a way to exhibit strength…
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Graduation Shoes
As often as I have been eligible to walk at graduation, I have only walked 3 times. My first was my eighth-grade graduation and I have no pictures of this day. I passed on my high school graduation as I dropped out my senior year and transferred into an adult program where I did not know anyone. There was too much drama in my life when I earned my two associate degrees and again passed on the opportunity. The stars did not align for me to attend my graduation for my bachelor’s degree either. After earning my bachelor’s degree I started adjunct teaching, while working at the college as a…
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Progression of the Beach Day
I am fortunate to have always lived near the Atlantic Ocean. My parents’ childhood included regular trips to the beach in the summer and they took me often enough to cement that love in my life. My earliest memory of the beach, I was about 5, we were in Wildwood with some of my older cousins. We spent the entire time in the water jumping waves and hanging out in the swells, it was a glorious day! When I was eleven we moved to the Wildwoods and I gained unlimited beach access! During my teens, it was grabbing a towel and a book and head to the beach with some…
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An Object in Motion- My Early Running Days
I wrote this blog Fall of 2020 I live my life by Isaac Newton’s first law of motion, an object in motion stays in motion. While yes you will find me sitting still playing computer games, checking Facebook, and searching the net or reading I am also usually plotting my next undertaking. During my doctoral program, the perfect storm occurred to rekindle a past love, my love of running. I had gained some weight from eating to stay awake to write and lack of movement, I started to look for something to get me moving. The easiest thing I could do was to start taking walks, about this time my…
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I am a Princess
I have often let myself be treated poorly or let others take advantage of me. Just over twenty years ago I made some drastic changes in my life to start putting myself in a safer space and to improve myself. It has been a slow journey and I feel like a late bloomer to only be figuring all of this out now that I am 50 and I am still a work in progress! References to being a princess have been popping up and I thought I would take some time to think about myself as a princess. One of the daily plans I read in my Bible app is…