Category: Flight
Taking Chocolate Milk Away from Kids (and Other Things I do for Fun)
If you want to make a bunch of friends right off the bat when your child enters kindergarten, I suggest introducing yourself to fellow parents with a handshake and a clipboard sporting a petition. Asking people personal questions in the school parking lot, such as whether or not they agree with chocolate milk being served [...]
Sharp Turns: Endurance Coach and Athlete Reflects on Her Surprising Life Path
What I wonder about is more a question of process than outcome: how did I GET here, rather than how did I get HERE? My mornings have settled into a predictable, if somewhat harried, routine: I see the kids onto the bus, finish off the last few sips of coffee while chatting with the other [...]
In the Distance: Lessons in Training for a Marathon, Twice
Pilot Mountain Knob is visible from nearly everywhere within Surry County, North Carolina. It sits on the horizon as a constant reminder of my first marathon and all the valuable lessons I learned getting there. A month before I signed up for my first marathon, I had told a friend that I had no desire [...]
GOAL! Sparrow Readers share their ambitions for 2012
The first time I decided to train for and run a half marathon, I wrote about it on my blog. I found the process of going public with something that was so big and scary for me at the time to be both exhilarating and terrifying. I remember thinking: “Well, there is no turning back [...]
Embracing Resistance On Your Path of Soul’s Purpose
My favorite dreams are the ones in which I am flying. They all seem to begin the same way: I suddenly remember that I have this ability to fly. It’s like I am a super hero accessing her special power for the situation at hand. “Oh yeah, of course. I can fly!” I say to [...]
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