Rather randomly, I found out just this week that there was a 5k race in North Liberty this weekend.  Kevin was a volunteer at the race so I decided that I would enter and get my first race out of the way.  (I’m running in the Run for the Schools in October and that was […]

What a down-and-out kind of day.  I hate those.  I didn’t see it coming this morning when I woke up, but it just progressively got worse and worse.  Now I’m trying to piece it all together and pull myself back into place.  The only thing that seems like a reasonable option is to go for […]

I have always wanted to try out my hand at grilling more than just meat.  Today seemed like a great day for that.  So I grilled a cake. It was an apple cake that is actually supposed to be grilled, but that didn’t stop us up with a round of questions about how to control […]

I only faintly remember going to a circus once as a child.  I remember a trapeze artist who was a beautiful lady who hung from her hair and I wanted to be just like her.  Guess that didn’t happen. When I heard that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus was in Moline this […]

As has become our Saturday morning tradition lately, Michelle & I meet up at the gym for Body Pump at 9, work ourselves into a sweat, by 9:30 feel like we’re going to fall over in a dead heap, and then at 10 put away our weights, bar, mat, step, and risers and head over […]

I’ll huff…and I’ll puff…and I will run 5 miles. Believe me, it was not a joy run by any means, but I was shocked to find that when I finished, I had maintained my normal average pace (9’40″/mile) even in a much longer distance. That put a smile on my face! I sort of can’t […]