a renaissance woman
I have breast cancer. Surprise! Also, I haven’t blogged regularly in **checks notes** over six years. All it took was a good, solid tumor, but I’m back, baby! And I have some answers to your most frequently asked questions.
I live in a state that didn’t even vote for its own Democratic native son, Al Gore, 12 years ago. Tennessee has grown redder with every passing year, to the…
I’ve been trying to brainstorm about some more things to blog about — things outside of the ‘this is what is happening to me at this moment’ and ‘that post…
I don’t really get into Halloween in the dressing-up and partying sense, but I do fully embrace my Halloween homeowner duties. I hang orange-colored lights and put out plug-in pumpkins….
The Modern Love Machine warned me after I wrapped up triathlon training two months ago not to rest too long on my laurels. ‘You don’t want to have to start…
The Modern Love Machine put together an amazing, hearty meatloaf for dinner tonight, a dish inspired by the November issue of the Food Network Magazine. I sank my tastebuds into…
If you even half pay attention to sports, you know football in its various forms is in full swing now, which means if I were still at my old sportswriting…
My fear in advance of my first Olympic triathlon was never that I wouldn’t finish. I would find a way to will myself to that finish line. My fear was…
The big, bad triathlon I’ve been training for for the past 12 weeks is upon me. Tomorrow I pick up the race packet. Friday I rest. Saturday I race. Training…
I am trying so hard to get back into blogging. I have so many things to say** and so many stories to tell. I just haven’t had the urge to…
So my 12-day vacation from the blog turned into twice that. Whoops. It’s so easy to get out of the habit of blogging, especially when so much is going on…
