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The Light of the World

On the lawn of my neighbor four doors down stands a panoply of lighted yard animals. A couple of moose and two varieties of reindeer, what appears to be a bear, a snowman, and a Snoopy-like dog...

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By the Numbers

My brother turned fifty-one last week.  Fifty-one.  A big number.  Not so long ago, turning fifty sounded like an impossible thing, a feat maybe other people managed, but not the people I knew, my...

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Intentionality

“A speck of glitter is an accident,” said the woman across the conference table. “A blotch of it is intentional.” I thought of the splotch of glitter glue stuck to my home office floor, a reminder of...

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What’s Your Attitude?

“It’s so cold and miserable outside I have to go to the gym, do hills on the treadmill,” I complained to my boyfriend on the phone yesterday morning. “I hate the treadmill.” I feel like I’ve been...

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The Longest Run

Bridal veil blooms early in San Antonio.  I see the first flowers open sporadically like buttermilk dripping down the side of the neighborhood fence as I set out for my long run alone.  It’s been...

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Focus

A focused mind is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. So says the fortune tacked on the corkboard above my desk.  I believe this is true, which is why the tiny slip of paper is pinned...

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Why I Run

I love to run. I know this in the same way I know that my eyes are brown, my second toe is taller than my big toe, and that the indentation above my right eye is a relic of the chicken pox I...

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A Lesson in Stillness

My greatest fear is that I will run out of time.  That there isn’t enough, there won’t be enough to complete a project, call this person, prepare for that presentation. Write. Run. Walk my dogs. Vacuum...

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Scratch That

You’re starting from scratch. Words I normally don’t like to hear.  They usually follow in the wake of a loss.  Corrupted data.  Missing spreadsheets. People leaving, taking with them their knowledge,...

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Time in Hand

Hold onto time. Advice from an elderly man I read the other morning before I went out to run. As if time were an apple to be held firmly in the palm and not a slippery fish to escape from my grasp....

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