Be Still

I’m always talking about moving.  Moving forward, moving on, moving past… but there are those moments when there is no moving.  There is almost no breath.  This week’s tragic events at Boston was, for many of us, one of those times. And this post isn’t about what happened in Boston.  It’s not political or religious….

Life Lesson #22: Be Happy

Cate skips everywhere.  From the couch to the pantry.  From the car to the family room.  Through the aisles of Target.  And it doesn’t dawn on her to move any other way.  And there are a million ways she can move through life yet she always chooses to skip, her soft hair rising and falling…

Hands

I first posted this last year.  I found it today and decided to re-post it.  It’s still very true. I have delicate looking hands.  Long, slender tapered fingers and small-sized palms.  They don’t look like much, but my hands do work.  I had acrylic nails in college for a few weeks and hated it.  I’ve…

Gluten-Free Questions Answered!

I’ve been neglectful of my posting on my nutrition status as of late, mostly because it’s all become so routine, it’s not even a challenge anymore!  On January 3rd, I wrote a blog post about my nutrition makeover.  All told, I’m 100% gluten free, dairy free, soy free, I drastically limit my caffeine and alcohol consumption…

Open WOD 13.1

The CrossFit Open is upon us. So far, more than 110,000 athletes, 2,400 teams, and 20,000 Masters have registered for this year’s Open competition. More than 3,600 affiliates are represented from 115 countries around the globe. This is a huge jump from 2012, where only 69,000 athletes competed. This is one of the world’s largest…

Leaving a Path…

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France I made some aesthetic changes to Leaving a Path’s look recently.  I got to thinking the other day about the…

Love on the Run

One of my favorite moments of the day is when I pick up the girls from school.  I get Cate first because she has to wait in line with her class before her kindergarten teacher releases her to me.  I usually see Cate before she sees me, her shocking blonde hair obvious in the line-up…

Back to Class

I started my teaching job this week at Creighton University.  Wednesday night I met with what ended up being the 19 students I’d have for the next 11 weeks.  It’s a Finance class for Entrepreneurial Ventures and is at a graduate level.  Many of the students are Social Entrepreneurship majors, though I have some Philosophy…

Open Gym with Cate

February 14, 2013 I often blog about my two daughters Taylor and Cate.  Taylor is almost 11 the precocious five-and-a-half year old is Cate  As it relates to our lifestyle, we’re pretty active.  It’s no secret that I talk incessantly about CrossFit and my gym CrossFit Omaha.  CrossFit is something I take time to do…