My typical day with a 9-month-old
My monthly recap of what it’s like to be a first-time mom. In month 9? There are two new teeth! She’s crawling! She’s talking!
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All the ways I should have screwed this race up — but didn’t
Here’s all the things that a “seasoned” serious racer would never do but I did anyway.
My typical day with an 8-month-old
Things have gotten so much easier since the last time I did this post. A lot easier.
I spent 10 days on vacation and ran almost none of them
I just spent the last 10 days on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. It was over 60 degrees every day and awesome. I ran fewer times there than I was when I was pregnant. Oi. Am I really going to be able to run a half-marathon in less than a month? Still, I got to spend […]
The 30 things I learned before I turned 30
In honor of my next decade, here’s a look back on what I’ve learned in the last one.
One tired parent’s reasons for co-sleeping
So I popped open my laptop this afternoon to this story on the Bangor Daily News’s front page to a story about the Maine Attorney General issuing a blanket warning against co-sleeping after five children died since January. I can hear the blame truck backing up, ready to hit tired parents again. First, I want to […]
My typical day with a seven-month old
The big change this month? A little more stability.
The questions no one can answer for me about my baby that I obsessively keep researching anyway
I think the biggest thing I didn’t expect before I had a baby is that … there are no right answers. Except when there might be.
Here’s how weeks 3 and 4 of half-marathon training have gone
Ahh! Where does time go? My daughter is already six-and-a-half months old, winter is half over (thank god) and I have about 8 weeks to go before my next big race.
An update on my first two weeks of half-marathon training
After I did that 8-mile run on New Year’s Day, I signed up for that half marathon in April. And then the universe reached out and said, “girl, oh no you better don’t,” and threw up a few hurdles.
