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 […]
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July 2021 Wrap Up
July was BUSY. Busy with work, but mostly busy with running. Kelly and I both hit our highest number of running miles ever, thanks mostly to doing our first ever multi-state, multi-race one week trip. Mom Hayley had a bad fall, which meant Kelly spent 14 days in Tyler helping around the house. While home […]
June 2021 Wrap Up
It felt like June was mostly about running and work, with a bit of fun tossed in the mix. Fittingly, we kicked off the month with an evening 5k celebration on Global Running Day. And another Galloway Season got underway – our sixth as program directors. Kelly’s accounting group retreated to Eureka Springs for team […]
May 2021 Wrap Up
May brought something back that we’d dearly missed: VACATION. We started the month with Johnnie in the hospital. He had two strokes, but managed to rally and return to health. Hard to believe, but we’ve had Glory Be in our lives for a year! Also hard to believe – it was time to finally say […]
April 2021 Wrap Up
April 2021. The month when we first started to feel normal after 13 months of definite not normal. Our 2021 home improvement project – the Great Backyard Remodel – got underway with a sprinkler reconfiguration. Goodbye Sonata! We bought it in 2012, right before I started driving to downtown Dallas for work. A hot market […]
March 2021 Wrap Up
March was still very chaotic with family-related activity. We were working against the clock to prepare Kelly’s biological father for Medicaid provided care. A year after COVID’s arrival, Kelly finally took his first rapid COVID test. It was a requirement for visiting his father in the care home. (He tested negative!) Plano Fire-Rescue made several […]
2021 Word of the Year: Centered
It’s a hard thing to acknowledge your normal life will probably not be normal for the foreseeable future. Yet here we are. 2020 taught us anything was – and is – possible and that flexibility, adaptability and resiliency were important character qualities. Kelly and I think 2021 will bring much of the same. Political disruption […]
Reflections on a Most Unusual Year
Last year my word of the year was RETURNING. I thought it would be a year of returning to (as I wrote in January 2020): returning to a simpler home life. returning to the marathon distance. returning to fitness and nutrition discipline. returning to the other-focused activities that bring us joy. returning to a structured Bible study program. Turns out, […]
September 2020 Wrap Up
Ah….September. AKA a much better month than August. Example One: Oliver finished his medication regime and started being sassy and healthy again. And his surgery shaved legs were ever-so-cute. Example Two: Mom sent me a box of my letters from college and I realized just how much I’ve grown up. I also wish I could […]
Happy Hour in a Box – Delivered
I really miss seeing my team every day. I also miss our lunches at Urban Crust, jokes and happy hours. So I decided to deliver Happy Hour in a Box to everyone for us to enjoy via Zoom. And it was EPIC. The boxes contained pita strips, kalamata tapenade, tomato spread, red pepper hummus, dark […]