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Training For A Full Marathon Part 2 – Weeks 5-10
It’s official! As of this post, I am signed up for my FIRST FULL MARATHON!! I looked at so many marathons and their websites over the past few months, that I was starting to worry I would never be able to pick one. I was looking for certain aspects in the race, and finding one that fit everything I was looking for proved a little more difficult than I had expected. I was looking at time limits, location, amount of participants, time of year, and cost. A lot of the races I looked at (and briefly considered), had time limits that I was not positive I could meet. Others…
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St. Augustine, Florida – A Day Trip To The Oldest City In The U.S.
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of my grandparents taking me on vacation with them. I can remember the excitement as we loaded their car up with suitcases, games, snacks and even school books. It was usually late Spring and school would not be out yet. We would have to bring our school books and work in them while we traveled, so that we did not fall behind in school. I am sure that missing a few weeks of school was part of the excitement! Every year we would go to Florida. Our final destination was always Miami Beach (except for the year that Disney World opened the…
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Riding Standing Up – A Book Review
Book 5 of 12 Riding Standing Up By Sparrow Spaulding I should probably start the book review for May, with the statement that this post is only my opinion. I know everyone has differing opinions about the books they read, just as they do about movies that they watch. If you have read the content description of this book, or for any other reason, have decided you want to read it, by all means, read it. My intent is not to discourage anyone from reading anything, it is simply to let you know my thoughts on what I have read. That said, here is my review on my choice for my…
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Training For A Full Marathon – #1 On My Bucket List – The First 4 Weeks
Running a marathon takes training, both physically and mentally. Your brain and the rest of your body are not always on the same page when it comes to running. When I started making my Bucket List of things I would like to one day do, running a full marathon was the first thing I put on it. At that time, I had only run a half marathon – once. The thought of turning around at the end of that 13.1 miles, and running it back again, was something I could not wrap my head around at the time. Since then, I have run a couple of the National Park Series…
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40 Days – A Book Review
Book 4 of 12 40 Days by Steven Cannon “The number 1 reason to adventure, to go beyond your comfort zone, is that with each mile, each hour, you uncover a bit more of who you are at your core” – Steve Cannon I have finished April’s Bucket List book! If you are someone who enjoys adventure, the outdoors, running, or just a good book about human spirit, then you will enjoy reading 40 Days. It is the true story of one man’s journey as he ran, for forty days, around Lake Michigan. Steve Cannon’s life could have gone in any direction years ago when he was failing out of college, and…
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Dragon Wings Are Coming – Game Of Thrones Inspired Chicken Wings And More
How incredibly excited (and sad) are we that the FINAL season of Game of Thrones has started?! It is going to be a quick season, but hopefully, also one of the best! Every good show needs good food to go with it. When that food is inspired by a favorite character (Daenerys and her Dragons), even better! I made this recipe during Season 7, and decided I would only make it during the actual GoT season, but with the show wrapping up, I decided I will have to make it whenever I feel like it…I guess I will just have to re-watch all eight seasons 🙂 Anyway, last season, I…
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“Beauty Sick” – A Book Review
Book 3 of 12 Beauty Sick by Rene Engeln, PhD Never be too proud of your youth or your beauty. You did nothing to earn them, and you can do nothing to keep them. – Beauty Sick After several months of being told I needed to read Beauty Sick, I finally relented, and decided I would read it for my third book review of my Bucket List books. I do not even know where to begin with my review on this book! I can tell you, this book had a profound impact on me. You can see by the cover of the book that this book deals with “How the Cultural Obsession…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 2
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb Happy St. Paddy’s Day!! I think the same can be said about a really good recipe sometimes, and Char’s Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe is definitely one of them! Today is the day! The brisket has been sitting in the fridge all week, brining nicely. Hopefully you have remembered to flip it every day so that it saturated nice and even. Today we are cooking up what, hopefully, will also become your favorite version of corned beef, just as it has mine! Like I said…
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“Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee” – A Book Review
Book 2 of 12 – Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields February’s book for my bucket list of books, took me a couple of weeks longer to finish than I expected. But I have finally finished it, and I am excited to share it with you! I came across this book in a bookstore in downtown Beaufort, SC. The bookstore, in itself, is a fantastic find! Nevermore Books is located in one of the buildings in the Historic District of downtown Beaufort, and is home to many hard to find and vintage books. I was just going to go in and browse. As I walked around looking at all…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 1
“And shepherds we shall be, for thee, my Lord, for thee…In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti” – The Boondock Saints Traditions, we all have them for holidays, and St Paddy’s Day is no different! For me, one of those traditions is wearing something green (even though the original color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue). Green eventually took over as the traditional St. Paddy’s Day color (all the pinching we endured as kids, just enforced it), and, for me, that is still my color of choice for the day. They say that Catholics wear green, and Irish Protestants wear Orange. But just know, you are probably still getting pinched if…