Sometimes the small, local races surprise you. When my friend asked me to run the Old Fashioned Festival 5K with her in a neighboring town for $10 I had no problem jumping in. It was her first ever race and there would be pancakes afterward. Who wouldn’t!? I didn’t expect much of the race I’d… [Read More]
Reasons to Love Runners
Last Monday I helped Destination Races put on a local Happy Hour Run at Elizabeth Chambers Cellars in downtown McMinnville. They provided prizes and wine and I picked a route and got some local runners to show up and do our runner thing. The event reminded me of a few great reasons to love runners…. [Read More]
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Living Liver Donor Story: Evaluation Process
In this post I talk about my donor mentor a bit and share what my donor evaluation process was like at UCSF – in other words, all the tests that were done back in March. But first, a little review of my living liver donor story so far. Feb 2nd I found out my cousin… [Read More]
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Living Liver Donor Story: Pre-Screening
If this is the first you’re reading of my living liver donor story, you can start from the beginning. After learning my cousin needed a living liver donor my husband and I decided to take the first step. This meant research and pre-screening, which I’m sharing about in this post. Sharing a Liver 101 I started… [Read More]
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Living Liver Donor Story: Responding to the need.
Subscribe to follow my living liver donor story. Living Liver Donor Story Folks, this is hard to write. Not because I don’t want to share, but because I don’t know how to share and what to share. I typically write in a casual, light-hearted, sometimes sarcastic tone, but to do that with this topic seems risky…. [Read More]
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2017 Gorgeous Wine Country Relay Review
Hmm, should I put the video at the END of the post to make you read through my 2017 Gorgeous Wine Country Relay Review to get to it? Or just put it right up front and center because, let’s be honest…that’s the fun part. Yeah, let’s do that. Then you can skim and scan through the… [Read More]
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My 33rd Birthday Request
I’m turning 33 this month. Yay! But… that’s the bait. Here is the switch. As there is no sense in being fancy-worded about this, I’ll just blurt it out. My cousin will die if he doesn’t get a new liver (diagnosis: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) so I’m going to give him part of mine. I’ll explain more… [Read More]
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Hood to Hood Relay: 1 Day, 5 Runners, 48 Miles
My first relay was a 200 mile, through the night kind of relay. I’ve done several more since because I love the energy, journey, scenery, and camaraderie of the team relay. However, it is a big time, money and physical commitment. If only I could have the good bits without the overnight, stinky van, and… [Read More]
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Between the Blog Posts
In the past few months I’ve sat down several times to write something for this space. You have no idea how many “brilliant” ideas I’ve come up with. A challenging take on the whole “love your body” movement, the reality of fitness fatigue, or how to spot fake fitness. I’ve also wanted to reveal bits of… [Read More]
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C.E.R.T Training – Disaster Preparedness
Disaster preparedness? What, are we doomsday preppers now? No, we don’t have a bunker or a stockpile of dehydrated food (or do we?). However, it doesn’t take a disaster of biblical proportions to find yourself if need of basic survival skills. Lower your eyebrows. My husband and I like to acquire knowledge, skills and resources to take care of ourselves and help… [Read More]
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