Author: Jocelyn
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Yay! and a Giveaway for Three Winners
Yay yay yay! for Carla F. and Janelle R. who went for a run in response to my March 24 post How to Be a Runner Vol 2: Start Now. Carla posted a comment and Janelle “cheated” and texted me. I’m oh-so-happy to be just a smidgen of inspiration to both of you. As I…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 4. Don’t live to run.
Run to live. Don’t live to run. My life is better with running in it, but running is not my life. A word of advice about how to be a runner and stay motivated? Don’t let running become your everything. Don’t let it become the thing you obsess over or the thing that defines you.…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 3. Find a friend.
Finding a running partner is unarguably both the most difficult and most rewarding thing to start and keep you motivated to run. I’m lucky. I have Megan. We’re a perfect fit. We run at just the right pace. We talk just the right amount and about all kinds of things. We inadvertently take turns challenging…
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Love Triangles of Friendship
This past weekend a very scrumptious and wonderful thing happened to me: two of my best girlfriends (Amanda & Stephanie) came to be with me. Amanda is getting married in just 1.5 months and so we were celebrating. I needed to be with them. They took turns holding my baby; we ate good food; I…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 2. Start now.
If you aren’t a runner but want to be one: Start now. Stop reading this blogpost, lace up your shoes, and go for a jog. Just move those legs, even if you only jog very slowly for 3 minutes. Then come back, read the rest of the post and post a comment that says you…
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How to Be a Runner. For the run of it: Vol 1. “I wish I could be a runner.”
I hated running. I played track in high school but only socially, and would frequently find reasons to walk most of our longest jaunts. The burning lungs, the shortness of breath, the sore and tired muscles. What is there to like? Some people make it look so glamorous, but it feels as far from glamorous…
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Howard’s Pennant Garland
Pennant garlands are so in right now! I see them everywhere I turn in blog-land. Howie has been relentlessly begging me for one – a monogrammed one, no less – to hang on his bedroom door. So, for his 4-month birthday, I made him one. And had so much fun; this is definitely the…
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Walt Whitman and Thoughts about Nature
Howard was an unusually happy baby for me today – delightfully long enough for me to read some of The Treasury of Religious Verse, compiled by D.T. Kauffman. Taking care of a 4-month-old is physically taxing and causes mental bankruptcy. I try desperately to reverse the deterioration by reading things that challenge me at a…
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Spring [Closet] Cleaning
My closet is one of my favorite rooms in our house. I love it for one main reason: it’s huge. I can see all of my clothes in one passing glance and so I wear more of them more often. A huge closet is just one of the wonderful home additions that resulted from the…