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Running the Hills
Today I ran Wildwood Park’s inaugural RunWild 5K. It was a great point to point course with some small rolling hills that somehow managed to end with almost a half mile of downhill. It got me thinking about my high school cross country coach, Loyal Kaeding, who taught me how to run hills. At the time, the lesson was strictly about running, but I’ve heard the words of his lessons play through my head many times over the past 18 years. Coach Kaeding’s methods for running uphill were simple: Pump your arms, bend your knees, dig in with your toes. If you are running on a trail and the hill is steep enough, use your hands to pull yourself up the hill. Living in Central Arkansas, I still run up literal … Read entire article »
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There's a Word for That: Panqueque
Carina has become highly interested in the Spanish language over the past month or so. I thought it would be fun for her to read some books in Spanish, so we hit the library and picked up If You Give a Pig a Pancake in both English and Spanish. The Spanish title is Si Le Das un Panqueque a una Cerdita. I thought it was funny that the Spanish word for pancake is panqueque. Obviously, a pancake is called a pancake because you cook it in a pan. So, the Spanish translation would make more sense if it was something like pastel (cake) de cacerola (pan) or something along those lines. As it is, the direct translation of panqueque is Breadwhatwhat. I may be wrong, but I’m thinking that the … Read entire article »
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Race for the Cure 2010 – Get your pink on!
I got my Race for the Cure shirt in the mail yesterday, which means it’s almost time for the big event. This year’s event is October 16th. It is my third year to run in the Little Rock Race for the Cure, a race that I am absolutely in love with. I’ve blogged about it before here and here. The big draw for me is the purpose of the event (fighting breast cancer via screenings … Read entire article »
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Tree Hugger
Last week we had a very windy day and one of the three tall pines in our back yard snapped in two. The odd thing is that I watched it happen. Two things struck me. One was my instinctual protective mother action of gasping aloud, grabbing hold of Carina and pulling her tight against me. Even though we were separated from the tree by an exterior wall and 20 feet of deck/flooring. At least I know I have the instinct. The other thing that was interesting was the sound and feel of the tree falling. I was sitting on the couch in the living room when the tree caught my attention with a dual-report popping noise, and not only did I see it fall past the window, I heard it … Read entire article »
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TMI?
The last post I did with tons of survey-type information about myself was a huge hit in the bloggy underground (still shocked about that one), so I’m taking a cue from my blog buddy, The Park Wife, and posting the “25 Things” list that I wrote when it was circulating around Facebook back in February of 2009. Surprisingly, not much has changed, except that I am getting a little more sleep these days. 1. I am a night owl by nature. My children no longer let me live as such. 2. I am not, nor would I ever claim to be, a domestic goddess. In fact, my husband is more domestic than I. 3. I am interested in learning about all religions, although I haven’t found a single … Read entire article »
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Twingle Defined
Ok, I’m a day late, but that’s because the guys who are putting in our sprinkler system hacked right through my internet cable line yesterday. For shame. I was like a fish out of water. A Twingle is a single child who is often mistaken for a twin, due to being close in age to a sibling with similar physical appearance. So a twingle is always part of a pair of twingles. My kids are indeed twingles. The are 17 months apart in age, and look more like one another than they look like their parents. We get asked all the time if they are twins (or people just assume) and have also been asked several times if we adopted our twins. This phenomenon seems to be getting worse as Callen … Read entire article »
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Grab My Button!
