October is a bit of a blur. Why? Because of COVID and a life that has to keep moving forward despite COVID. That’s right: After three years of avoiding it, both Kelly and I came down with COVID. It meant four days of terrible sinus ick and four weeks of low energy and mental fog. […]

Lots of travel in September. Lots. We headed back to Wisconsin to run the race that canceled on us last year. Despite a heat wave that threatened to cancel this year’s race, we successfully got it done. From Wisconsin to Florida for the 3CMA conference. I spoke at a session, hung out with the Texas […]

A month at home! What a reprieve. We spotted our first sign of trouble in the neighborhood: A gang of young raccoons. At one point in the summer, one of them spent the night in our garage after I accidentally left the door open. Glory is still suspicious. Glory won the cutest dog in Plano […]

July is usually a favorite month – birthdays, bonus holiday and so on. This year it was busy and hot. Not quite as much fun as normal. At first we weren’t excited about this garden visitor – a Yellow Garden Spider – until we learned how beneficial they are to the yard. We handed out […]

June was insanely busy, thanks primarily to work. We hosted and (as a result of a rain cancellation) planned two birthday events plus had our annual conference. Kelly and I also kicked off season 9 of leading Dallas Galloway – now named Interval Run Club Dallas. If you thought we were excited over our first […]

May flew by – probably because we ran three races in three states, in addition to all of the normal (and not-so-normal) life things back home. We headed back to the east coast to pick up two northeastern state races. First up was Rhode Island, which was a small loop-based race course. A definite benefit […]

April was the month busy began. And wouldn’t you know, it started off with busyness at home and was made complete with two travel races and two trips to Tyler. We’d started installing a new backyard landscape in early 2021. That project went on hold when we took over care for Johnnie. Hard to believe […]

We kicked off our 2023 travels and races in March with our first-ever trip to Napa. We also started getting serious about home improvement projects and, as a result, the year started ticking by quickly. It’s hard to believe we’d never been to Napa! It was a bucket list trip for us. We consulted friends […]

Ah February. Another year of snow and ice. It’s becoming a regular Texas February thing. Snow actually forced me to work from home one day. I didn’t mind and my co-workers were especially pleased with the unexpected turn of events. It wasn’t too cold to run! There’s something about cold mornings that makes winter runs […]

January 2023 was easy like Sunday morning. By that, I mean it was everything you want a new year to be. Family time, friend time, fitness time and not an abundance of “stuff.” We purchased a commemorative brick to remember Holiday’s life. It was installed in the Veteran’s Plaza in Plano’s Memorial Park. We also […]