8/20 It’s time to get back to it. I haven’t run since the first of June, and it’s starting to affect me more than just physically. Lately, I’ve been stressed. crabby. grouchy. tired. inpatient. short-tempered. snippy. basically just difficult to live with. I just jogged two miles, and I couldn’t even make 1.5 miles without […]
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I jumped off the truck ready to go. We were first in, and the garage was fully involved. As my feet hit the ground running, I placed my helmet on my head and something wasn’t right. It didn’t fit. I instantly remembered you wearing it around the house a day earlier. I had brought my
I never understood happy tears…until I became a dad. I just put my NE on the bus to school, his first day of kindergarten. My little man is growing up. It literally seems like yesterday we brought you home from the hospital…all 5 pounds of you snuggled in a pumpkin seat. As I
“For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net, or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time, as it suddenly falls on them.” Ecclesiastes 9:12 I’m in awe. I just got back to the firehouse. Your mom brought the three of you…SD,
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The boys and I went fishing today. The first time for NE and SI. There are no words to describe the joy I experienced watching you two this morning, but I’ll try. It took a bit to set up the new poles…honestly I don’t have the finger dexterity to efficiently handle fishing line, small hooks,
I have a riddle for you. What will make you age faster while at the same time keep you young longer? To find the answer, we have to look to a small green jar. After a 12 hour shift at the part-time 911 dispatching gig earlier this week, I came home to the regular, excited
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As I sit here in the front yard on this beautiful spring evening, the sun is setting. The birds are singing. The neighbors are mowing their yards. The children are playing in the cul-de-sac, giggling those carefree laughs of innocence. Off in the distance, the faint sound of the ice cream truck playing its familiar
It dawned on me today why I “enjoy” running. Yes I sarcastically say “enjoy” because it’s not something I find pleasure in, except when I’m done for the day…it feels good to have accomplished a good run. In the sense of the way I use the word “enjoy” above, I find some satisfaction in running
Running in long distance races reminds me that life isn’t much different. In a race, you’re either passing or being passed. Sure, there are some you’ll keep pace with…for awhile. But unless you are running the race together from start to finish, you’ll eventually lose them, whether by passing or being passed. Pass, or be
Afterthought to my 4/30 My April Run Journal entry… I have NO DOUBT that I will receive that strength from above in God’s timing for His glory! Literally, as soon as I finished writing that entry, I was reminded of this when the song “I Am New” came on my iPod. “Who I thought I