Keep Swinging.

This is supposed to be Gear Friday – I even have a really killer piece of gear lined up to tell you about – but then life happens.
Life happens and gets big. People fill me and my chest expands. I entertain reminder after reminder of our frailty.
At 7:34am I have to stop reading email. [...]

Putting Boot Camp Fitness to the Test: First Cyclocross Ride

Sal and I headed out to Forest Park last night for my first cyclocross ride of the year. Actually, it was my first ride of any kind in about 8 weeks. I was a little nervous – recalling my first ride up Thurman last year – how I gasped and sputtered and generally [...]

SnarkyPants Rides Again: A Bicycle Commuter Once More

When I left my job in downtown Portland, one of my former co-workers asked me if I missed riding my bike into work everyday. I answered honestly.
“Nope.”
Why would I want to make a 3 mile commute to a place that completely stressed me out? Truth be told, on most days my ride into [...]

Watch and Learn, Little One (The Best 30th Birthday Present Yet)

Sometimes the best birthday presents come from the least expected places.
Sunday, the best birthday present came from the opposite field.
My party on Saturday was a smashing success. I had friends in from far and wide – we drank and ate and made merry. My best friend Maggie’s parents showed up late in the [...]

30 Years Old and Faster Than Two Scalded Pigs

I turned 30 yesterday.
It was one of the best days of my life.  Nothing particularly special happened.  I got up, went to boot camp (they sang to me), spent the day working and running errands for the party we’ve planned for Friday, had a happy hour drink at a hip little spot in town, came [...]

I Don’t Look Good in Purple. I have proof.

To be honest, I hate purple. And pink.
Pink more than purple, but that’s beside the point. Nevertheless, purple turned out to be lucky in the tournament this past weekend (my team has a choice of either red or purple uniforms).
Since my camera body is in the shop (it died while I was shooting [...]

Attack of the 200 Pound Wall

It’s the top of the 7th and we’re tied 3-3 in the championship game. Julie has just driven a scorching line drive up the middle for a lead-off single.
After a demoralizing 0-for-Saturday showing, my bat has finally come ’round and I step into the box with a mission to drive something down. Pop-outs [...]

Game On: And Then There’s Softball

Big.
Everything is big right now.  Life is huge and expanding.  Explosive.  On fire.  Pounding, pulsing, pushng.
My work life is as challenging, energizing, and inspiring as it has ever been.  Limitless.
In the face of a week so incredibly professionally taxing, my body has found the point of exhaustion, rejected it, and moved on.  I’m napping strategically [...]

Why I Run: The Art of Surging Through Sobs

Those who know me best know that when I go quiet, it’s time to worry.
Last night the intensity of everything I’m dealing with hit me.  These are some crazy times, people.  These are some wild and crazy adventures.  Sal is working from his Sunnyvale office this week and I’m a strange and quiet person when [...]

Gear Friday: Not My iPhone

I’ll be honest.
For today’s Gear Friday feature I really want to write about my iPhone.
Why?
Because amidst the chaos that I have created for myself this month,