I never thought I’d get a tattoo…let alone 3 of them. It all started because my best friend Sheri and I wanted to get them together. We pondered for a good year, but never took the plunge. Little did I know; she would never actually […]

High school was a crazy time.  I really never did find my place or anything that I was good at, but I certainly didn’t give up.  I ran track my freshman year, played volleyball my freshman and I think sophomore years, which conflicted with marching […]

This is a hard memory to write about. I fought with my decision to write about it, but after all, if I’m writing about the most influential memories of my life, how can I ignore a major event such as this?  It was life-changing to […]

I was an only child for the first six years of my life.  From the stories that my parents told me, I was their miracle baby.  After seven years of trying to have a baby, I came along in 1966.  I remember wondering if I […]

Most of the time in life, we only talk about the good and happy memories.  The painful ones, we’d rather stick in the back of the closet or the corner of the basement and never speak of them again. This is one that I have not […]

The day was September 23rd 2013. I knew a formal proposal day was coming, I just didn’t know when. We knew we were getting married, but we didn’t have the rings yet. Things moved so quickly, there was barely time to breathe, let alone worry […]

On May 3rd, 1995, my ex-husband and I had gone to test drive a truck at Liberty Chevrolet in Johnstown, OH. What we didn’t know was that the salesman had entered us into a drawing to win a one year lease on a Chrysler Lebaron convertible.  A […]

If there’s one thing that I never expected to witness in my life, it would be an act of terror.  I certainly didn’t expect to witness such an act after I crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013.  What a tangled, twisted, emotional […]

I composed this race day Manifesto on May 8, 2011 after another one of my sub 4:00 marathon attempts.  Little did I know that the following year, not only would I run under four hours, but that I would shatter it with a 3:42 marathon. […]

Riding the biggest, fastest, scariest rides at large amusement parks has always been one of my favorite things to do!  Jamison and I finally went to one together along with his children.  While many of my amusement park visits in my teen, young adult and […]