My Way of Living [03/20/17] 

  • Laid up, and out of sync

    I coughed. Nothing fancy, just a simple cough. Then a ping in my back bloomed into searing pain, and suddenly I could barely stand up. By Sunday night I couldn’t sit, stand, lay down, or bend, not fun. They said it might be a herniated disk, has anyone else had this? Now here’s the funny parts — getting stuck on the X ray table, b…

  • Farewell Winter, welcome spring

    This is Allie, next door kitty from where we used to live. Farewell winter, you nasty snow breathing beast, hello gentle spring. Goodbye harsh winds, and frost covered bare branches.How are you new green grass, soft breezes and sunshine?Days of daffodils, fields of crocus and new calves.Soft white snow drops shyly peeking under a …

  • Celebrate Spring

    It’s official. Spring is here. Let’s celebrate!Jen. …

  • Spring hides in the curve of the crocus, it quivers in the branches of the pussy willows as they move in the cool breeze. It lurks in the dried parchment husks covering the daffodils before they bloom. Spring is released from the trumpets of the narcissi's as they open and immediately flits to the cherry blossoms to bestow a kiss.…

  • Spring swell this gardener's heart

    Rustling birds disturbed by progress down the rural road fly by, flicking from branch to branch. Soon there will be nests, eggs and chicks. Life moving in circles.My heart swells when I see the mountains bearing less snow, spring is arriving. Bleeding hearts, red stems shaded, cold, but determined to grow through the soil.Pink blo…

Random for running:

  1. 2009 GMS Triathlon Training Camp
  2. 2009 San Dieguito Half Marathon
  3. late night rambling
  4. insomniac ramblings
  5. Manchester United, racism, diets and breastfeeding (not in the same story)
  6. India and South Africa prove run chases are becoming a stroll
  7. A Rainy Monday in San Diego
  8. Tendulkar still the little master; Pietersen still not
  9. My triathlon haiku
  10. 2008 Oceanside Turkey Trot 5K