Monday night, on our way from Orlando to the Lightning vs. Sabres game in Tampa Bay, I added a video to my Instagram story of the fire-orange sunset silhouetting downtown Tampa’s skyline. It was just 1 of about 1,000 more I had seen while living in Tampa from 2009-2017. I wrote: “Missed you, pretty city.” …
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So, typically, we pick out a word or phrase at the beginning of each year to guide our thoughts and actions, helping us achieve certain goals or live a certain way. It’s our theme for the year. It’s an anchor; a north star. But, come January 1, 2018, I didn’t have one. I was just …
I got to spend Christmas in Orlando. Last year I joked with my family that all I wanted for Christmas was a tan because, after living in Tampa for eight years, I wasn't used to slowly fading from sun-kissed to sickly in the wintertime. Colorado's winters are sunny, but we're all still bundled up pretty …
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Sometimes I wish I could re-meet people. Do you? That I could turn back time and start fresh. That I could not only erase a painful past but implement the lessons I learned from it? We'd meet again and I'd know but they wouldn't. What a gift that would be. I can think of two people …
I cared just enough that it hurt when he said he’d had enough; enough of us and enough of this thing we were doing. Dating, dining, adventuring. Somewhere in some parking lot my heart sank and my throat tightened. My palms started sweating. I shook my head at the steering wheel, at the situation, at …
It has taken me so long to write this one. I’ve started and stopped more times than I can count. I scribbled my thoughts longhand in a notebook, typed out my feelings here and there in my phone on the bus to work or while walking to the store. I sent a running doc from …
Winter is here, son! I’m real pumped. On Wednesday I was running around the mountains in a sports bra, and by Thursday afternoon the temps dropped down to the 30s and beautiful chunks of snow were falling from the sky. I love it so, so much. I wish I loved snow this much when I …
THREE of the FOUR people (the most sad, yeah? LOL) who voted in my Twitter poll want to hear more about my job life right now. ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE. Here we go. Right now I have three part-time jobs. I work at Rapha Boulder, Athleta, and I’m starting some freelance jobs, like, today. …
I work at Athleta now. That is just one of three part-time jobs I'm juggling out here in Colorado. Full-time writing gigs in the ad world are few and far between these days. I know this schedule isn't forever, but it's working-ish so far. But that's another post I'm working on right now. So, yeah. …
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Next week is my 28th birthday. And next week I'll be moving myself, my bike, and a stuffed little Honda Civic across the country to Colorado. !!! Here I am, on the edge of a huge, gigantic, mega-enormous and exciting life change and all I keep thinking is: am I doing it wrong? My path …
