My Suzanne Westenhoefer Moment

We’re renewing our lease. This isn’t a rare event. It’s unprecedented. I don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand, I know why this is the right decision – several trips already planned for this year, paying off debt, time savings, a good location for travel along the East Coast. On the other,…

“Dad had a stroke.” Those words will snap you into wakefulness before your first cup of coffee on a Saturday morning. Those words snapped me into wakefulness before my first cup of coffee on Saturday morning. My sister called at 1:30 am. With the schedule we’ve been on lately, we would have usually been up….

I went for a solo walk/run yesterday. Mainly a walk with occasional, brief bouts of running consisting of short strides and poorly-taken breaths. I would say I’m the world’s worst runner, but I trust I have an advantage over asthmatics and arthritics. This walk/barely-run took place on a path with little traffic other than the…