A Year of DISCOVERY
In December of 2013 my friend & teammate, Maggie, told a bunch of us about an idea where you pick a word for the coming year. It’s your inspirationa...
Category: Adventure
Happiness Lives in the Space of Novelty
A few years ago I was doing some research on existentialism on the advice of a therapist I was seeing at the time. In doing the research, I decided to look ...
Impracticality and Life Experiences
I’m not usually one to clip articles out of newspapers, although I do love how much information and thought provoking topics I get from reading the Sunday...
Weekend Without Borders
It was o-dark-thirty when we crammed nine women, our chauffer, Barry, and multiple suitcases into a Suburban (totally illegal) and raced off to the airpo...
Lighthouse Love
I love lighthouses! I’m not sure why, but it may have to do with the proximity to the water, which is always a draw for me, or the romantic notion of st...
Book Review—The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
I know, I’m a rower, and you’re thinking “Really, you’re first book review for your blog is going to be about rowing!” No, actually, I’...
Catfishing
Catfishing: The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relat...
Rowing…Ballet on the Water
Mention that you’re on a women’s masters rowing team and the questions ensue. “Why rowing?” “Oh, did you row in college?” “Do you go out in c...
I Love Paris in the Springtime
I love Paris, and every quintessential Parisian clich├® there is—warm baguettes, brie, Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame, The Louvre, Musee de’Orsay, croissants—the...
I like sharing…I like change!
I like sharing—.and I like change. Sometimes both of those get me in trouble, but most of the time I enjoy the adventure they take me on and the things...