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  • May 2022 – Wrap Up

    May was super busy, which made it go by in a flash. Employee Appreciation Week always brings fun opportunities to visit our facilities and take care of our teammates. Coldplay returned to Dallas!!! This concert brought us so much joy. It was wonderful. We followed the concert up with a trip to see the Interactive […]

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  • March 2022 – Wrap Up

    Ah, March. Spring has sprung and life got pretty busy at the same time. Voting day! Always vote, especially in local races. We went to a Chef’s Dinner at Terra Eataly. It was wonderful! The Texas-Kansas nativity Kelly custom ordered for my birthday was ready to come home! Soup Week – now Soup Month – […]

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  • February 2022 – Wrap Up

    February kept us guessing with the weather (what a roller coaster!) and with family (again…can’t we keep everyone healthy and whole for just a while?). It just seems to be what life is about these days. The sunrises and sunsets were especially showy. We loved them. Surprise! Another winter storm. Time to spin up the […]

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  • January 2022 – Wrap Up

    January 2022 can be summed up thusly: Non-COVID head colds, weekend trips to Tyler, weekday trips to Paris (TX), running, more work and deadlines than hours and days available, and books. We started the year with colds, but still hosted and ran our first annual Dallas Galloway New Year’s Day 5-miler fun run and 2 […]

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  • Looking back on 2021

    My word for 2021 was Centered. Honestly, I feel it perfectly encapsulated the year – but not at all in the ways I thought when I wrote my start-of-the-year post. I thought we’d stay home more, avoid races, completing our backyard renovation and taking cooking classes. Instead, we went to 13 states, ran 9 races, […]

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  • On Happiness

    I took a Peloton happiness meditation session this weekend. Part of the instruction was to reflect back on a moment when we knew we were happy and to reflect on the physical feelings it invoked. The images that flashed through my mind surprised me. My 25th birthday in Kenya, standing alone in a field with […]

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  • August 2021 Wrap Up

    August was alternately busy and slow. Work was busy for both of us and the calendar was full. Yet we also seemed to have plenty of time for each other, running, home and the furkids. Altogether it seemed just about perfect. Tuesday and Thursday night running with friends officially became a thing. Kelly had a […]